One of Apple’s other aims with Snow Leopard is to make Mac OS X much more secure. Unfortunately we don’t know much more about OpenCL than that. OpenCL sounds similar to Nvidia’s CUDA, although Steve Jobs reckons Apple’s version will be much, much better. Working alongside Grand Central, will be Open Computing Language (OpenCL) - a new Apple technology that aims to harness the power of modern graphics CPUs and use them for ordinary computer functions. In other words, all of your Mac apps will run faster, not just a few that have been specially programmed to do so (like Adobe Photoshop CS3).
Grand Central will automatically tell an application what cores are available and then hand them the best resources available. Some have speculated that Grand Central may work by acting as a mediator and controller between Mac applications and available CPU cores.
Since Apple already uses multi-core processors in everything from the MacBook Air to the MacBook Pro, giving developers a helping-hand looks like a shoe-in.
Jobs says Apple already has the answer - and it’s called Grand Central.
