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NVIDIA
Delivers Comprehensive OpenCL Support Under Snow Leopard
All NVIDIA CUDA-Enabled GPUs Shipped by
Apple Supported under New Operating System
SINGAPORE — September 4, 2009 — Apple’s new
Snow
Leopard operating system (OS) is the first OS to integrate OpenCL, a
cross-platform open standard that makes it possible for developers to
tap into the vast gigaflops of computing power currently in the
graphics processing unit (GPU) and use them for any application.
OpenCL
on the NVIDIA® CUDA™ architecture enables applications to use the CPU
and the GPU together as co-processors. NVIDIA’s integration of the CUDA
architecture across its brands and segments enables it to offer Apple
users a broad selection of 10 GPU models officially supported by Snow
Leopard. These are: NVIDIA® GeForce® 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce
8600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce 8800
GT, GeForce 8800 GS, NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 4800, and Quadro FX 5600.
“NVIDIA
chairs the OpenCL working group and is the only company to have OpenCL
drivers for the GPU in the hands of thousands of Snow Leopard, Windows
and Linux developers today,” said Sanford Russell, general manager of
CUDA at NVIDIA. “We’re excited to see Snow Leopard ship, signaling the
arrival of GPU Computing for all Apple users.” NVIDIA has a range of
documentation and tools available for OpenCL including a detailed
programming guide, a Best Practices guide with tips and tricks for
tuning performance, SDK code samples and a soon-to-be-released Visual
Profiler for performance optimization. In addition to working closely
with Apple to integrate support for OpenCL into Snow Leopard, NVIDIA
has also released OpenCL conformant drivers for Windows and Linux.
For more information, visit www.nvidia.com/opencl and for more information on
Apple’s Snow Leopard OS, go to www.apple.com/macosx
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