Grand Central (technology)
- Grand Central (technology)
Grand Central is a technology developed by Apple to optimize multicore application support in Mac OS X 10.6. [ [http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/06/09snowleopard.html Apple Previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Developers] , June 9, 2008.]
This new architecture is designed to make it easier for application developers to take advantage of multiple CPU cores now being offered in computers. The technology works by splitting tasks into blocks and routing them to available processing cores efficiently. The sophisticated process management built into the kernel and programming language conventions enables individual developers to take advantage of a wide variety of different hardware that users might have at their disposal, without needing to become experts in multithreading themselves. [ [http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/06/12/wwdc-2008-new-in-mac-os-x-snow-leopard/ WWDC 2008: New in Mac OS X Snow Leopard] (accessed 2008-06-18)]
See also
GPGPU
DirectX 11
References
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