Earlier this past month, the final version
of the Apple-backed OpenCL specification was delivered to standards
group participants for vetting, and the final OpenCL 1.0 specification
has now released. Simultaneous with the final spec's release, NVIDIA announced
full support for it in its GPU products. Now we know why Apple has
standardized on NVIDIA GPU hardware across its entire product line.
In a nutshell, OpenCL
is a so-called "GPGPU" specification that enables programmers to tap
the power of the GPU as a data-parallel coprocessor without having to
learn to
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