OpenCL: What you need to know

Apple was stingy with details about Snow Leopard when it briefly previewed the next version of OS X at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Based on the company’s public statements about the OS X update, we know that Snow Leopard features some new technology that promises to  utilise more thoroughly the potential processing capability of the powerful graphics processors included with many Macs. Apple is promoting the technology, OpenCL, as a new open standard for graphics.