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Giz Explains: Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard Parallel Processing and GPU Computing

By Matt Buchanan on June 19, 2008 at 4:00 AM

As you’ve probably heard, the next version of OS X, Snow Leopard, will not wow us with a crazy circus of features like Time Machine and Boot Camp. So why would Apple spend a year programming an OS that they can’t boast has over 300 new features? Here’s a quick rundown of how Apple is totally rebuilding OS X to take advantage of Core 2 Duos, graphics cards and parallel processing, in order to deliver serious performance gains. And yes, that is a big deal.

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  • Janice
    September 6, 2008 at 1:27 AM

    “On the other hand, something like tomography–a technique for creating 3D images–totally is, because it’s highly vectorisable.”
    Its actually topology but its a common mistake

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