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Snow Leopard, OpenCL, the kidney, and historical contingency

The next release of Apple’s OS is code-named Snow Leopard. It will include OpenCL:OpenCL (Open Compute Library), makes it possible for developers to efficiently tap the vast gigaflops of computing power currently locked up in the graphics processing unit (GPU). With GPUs approaching processing speeds of a trillion operations per second, they’re capable of considerably [...]