“Apple Inc. has submitted the Open Compute Language (OpenCL) to an ad hoc industry group that aims to define a programming environment for applications running across both x86 and graphics chips. The move is one of a growing number of efforts to extend the ubiquitous C language for increasing parallelism in multicore processors,” Rick Merritt reports for EE Times.
“The Khronos Group put out on Monday (June 16) a call for participation in its Compute Working Group that is drafting programming standards for heterogeneous systems. Members of the work group include Advanced Micro Devices, Apple, ARM, IBM, Intel, Nokia, Nvidia, Samsung and Texas Instruments,” Merritt reports.
“Khronos created the working group at a meeting in late May following suggestions from Apple. The group has met just once to date and selected Aaftab Munshi, a software architect at Apple, as its temporary chairman,” Merritt reports.
“Apple chief executive Steve Jobs recently announced the company will support OpenCL in the next version of its operating system, called Snow Leopard, and due out later this year. The new OS ‘is optimized for multi-core processors, taps into the computing power of GPUs,’ and supports up to 16 Tbytes of memory, according to an Apple press release,” Merritt reports.
More in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Ted M.” for the heads up.]