GPU Powered Macs and iPhones


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architosh points guardian.co.uk article last week details upcoming trend of using gpus (graphics processors) day day computing. point out, if have computer either ati or nvidia graphics card, chances have more 100 microprocessor cores waiting use. while these cores have been optimized deliver high performance graphics games , video, there's effort harness these processors general use.
due specialized function, tasks better suited gpu use. far, research has focused on scientific tasks such weather predictions, there efforts standardize programming.

industry support focused around apple's opencl specification announced coming in next major version of mac os x ("snow leopard"). of course, not behind initiative. usual, microsoft seems have own plans, , been involved in own research on gpu computing.
also relevant apple's recent mobile phone push fact gpus may provide handheld devices computing power less power consumption. according president of khronos, gpus can 10 times more power-efficient using cpu. can improve both video , audio performance on mobile devices.

since iphone shares underlying os x codebase, these upcoming improvements in mac os x should trickle down benefit iphone.

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opencl looks amazing, if apple , rest of industry can issues worked out. example, see itunes 8 snow leopard utilizing technology drastically improve encoding speed. in cases, improvements of 10x seen here alone.

also, gpu great place hardware acceleration in video decoding. quicktime x perfect place this, , such improvements benefit ichat.
 


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