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| Tuesday, 10 June 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 And talking of corporate users, don't overlook the support for a "theoretical" 16T of RAM. What's one of the main reasons for huge amounts of memory? The ability to keep large databases in RAM for quick access. While this is of interest to Apple's existing scientific user community, it's also highly relevant to the commercial world.Featured Whitepaper
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Some of the other improvements should be regarded as new features, even though they are ultimately about performance. This is especially true of the 'Grand Central' technology designed to make it easier for developers to take advantage of multi-core CPUs. It might not be a new feature in the sense that Time Machine and Stacks were in-your-face changes when 10.5 arrived, but if you've ever watched an application peg out one core while the other ticks over at maybe 15 or 20 percent of capacity, you'll realise how much difference this could make. Similarly, providing a mechanism to tap under-utilised GPU (graphics processing unit) computational power and put it to work for applications via the C-based OpenCL (Open Computing Language) won't be directly visible to users, but it may help with applications that require the same operations to be applied to multiple data items. Projects such as Folding at Home already have software that uses GPUs for number crunching, and OpenCL could make the technique mainstream on Mac OS X. But wait! There's more! Page 3 concludes the story. |
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