The Khronos Group has released OpenCL 1.0, a new open, royalty-free specification standard for cross-platform parallel programming for modern processors. To put it more simply, OpenCL is the key that’s going to unlock processors and help Apple unleash Snow Leopard, the company’s next Mac OS X version. “In plain English, they hope to unleash the considerable power contained in the GPUs and multi-GPUs used for graphics processing in devices ranging from gaming consoles to game-focused PCs to smartphones,” Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told MacNewsWorld.
