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| 10-06-08 / 22:58 : Snow Leopard : Grand Central, OpenCL, ZFS and UB ? (cjed) |
| Snow Leopard is announced for June, 2009. It brings the Grand Central technology that allows to easily develop applications that benefit from multiples processors cores, OpenCL (Open Computing Language, C language that is presented as an open standard) to use the GPU for all other general purpose tasks of applications (Apple is said to be far more advanced than NVidia's CUDA in that area). The 64 bits gives access to 16Tb memory. Finally MacOSX 10.6 will include QuickTime X (optimized) and Safari 4 (50% faster in javascript). It seems, through screenshots from the preview version released to developers, that system applications are still universal binary, so working on PowerPC (we hope this will be the same in the final version, in fact it couldn't change, or at least only G5s - 64 bits - will be supported). There is however hope for 32 bits processors (G4, Core Duo) as the System Preferences screenshot shows a mode (32 bits here), that can lead to think that Apple kept the two - transparent - execution modes - 32 bits and 64 bits (such Leopard feature that Windows users envy). The announce of greatly reduced installation size of the new OS is however a hint that it would be Intel only (despite being possible to only install the code for a target architecture). About Snow Leopard Server, it will bring the ZFS (128 bits) filesystem in read and write. Snow Leopard has been presented as the foundation for the next era of MacOSX for years (1000 new features since 2000 for the first era). We can then expect a MacOSX 11 following Snow Leopard, that will unveil a brand new Touch interface (so this explains why Leopard was only a taste of Core Animation and Touch technology). |
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