08-30-2009, 01:01 AM

Honestly, OpenCL is one of the features that I was most looking forward to in Snow Leopard, and now that I have it, I'm wondering when we'll start to see some apps that take advantage of it. I wish there was some kind of list of apps that use it.

08-30-2009, 10:57 AM

Well, it may be a while before we really see some apps come out. Unless game developers and heavy graphics application developers had an early version of snow leopard to start developing for OpenCL my guess is that it'll be a while. That's just my guess of course

08-30-2009, 11:44 AM

Having looked at who is backing the OpenCL standard there is one company conspicuous by its absence...

08-30-2009, 11:55 AM

I don't know the full list of backers - only the 3 more well known ones that Apple brought the specification to (Intel, AMD, nVidia) so who are you referring to? Microsoft? not a big surprise, OpenCL was initially created by Apple (and from what I've read holds the trademarks), considering the rivalry between Apple and MS, I doubt MS would use something like OpenCL unless it absolutely had to.

Looks like AMD and nVidia already are backing it so that's all that Apple really needs to care about since they are only using graphics cards and chipsets from those two companies...

The next big question is how long will it be before developers adopt it? So many developed for DX, OpenGL or both - I wonder how many will make a shift to OpenCL