Mark Boon wrote:
I don't know if that's what you're already looking at, but recently
Apple announced their new version of OS X called 'Snow Leopard' which
supposedly focuses mostly on improvements in the use of multiple
processing. And that includes the GPU. The module that binds it all
together is called 'Grand Central'. I don't know much of the details,
just picked up some buzz-words from articles like these:
http://gizmodo.com/5017615/giz-explains-mac-os-106-snow-leopard-parallel-processing-and-gpu-computing
If you google around a bit you may easily find more information about it.
The most relevant part for GPU programming is OpenCL, which is expected
to have about the same expressive power as nvidia's CUDA. But it won't
change the processing and communication characteristics of the GPU. You
still need to come up with some really clever vectorization tricks
yourself, if you want to make good use of the GPU for go algorithms.
/Gunnar
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