OpenCL Ratified, Set for Mac OS X Snow Leopard

December 10th, 2008

The Khronos Group on Monday announced that its OpenCL 1.0 specification has been ratified and publicly released. Apple proposed the spec six months ago.OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers and handheld/embedded devices.

“The opportunity to effectively unlock the capabilities of new generations of programmable computer and graphics processors drove the unprecedented level of cooperation to refine the initial proposal from Apple into the ratified OpenCL 1.0 specification,” said Neil Trevett, chairman of the OpenCL working group, president of the Khronos Group, and a vice president at Nvidia.

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