OpenCL 1.0 spec approved
December 9th 2008
Khronos has announced that the Apple promulgated OpenCL 1.0 specification has been approved--the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of processors used in PCs, servers and handheld / embedded devices.
"We are excited about the industry-wide support for OpenCL," said Bertrand Serlet, senior vice president, Software Engineering, Apple. "Apple developed OpenCL so that any application in Snow Leopard, the next major version of Mac OS X, can harness an amazing amount of computing power previously available only to graphics applications."
OpenCL (Open Computing Language) greatly improves speed and responsiveness for a wide spectrum of applications in numerous market categories from gaming and entertainment to scientific and medical software. Proposed six months ago as a draft specification by Apple, OpenCL has been developed and ratified by industry-leading companies including 3DLABS, Activision Blizzard, AMD, Apple, ARM, Barco, Broadcom, Codeplay, Electronic Arts, Ericsson, Freescale, HI, IBM, Intel Corporation, Imagination Technologies, Kestrel Institute, Motorola, Movidia, Nokia, NVIDIA, QNX, RapidMind, Samsung, Seaweed, TAKUMI, Texas Instruments and Umea University.
Editor's note: Just in time for Snow Leopard!
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