[Info-vax] The Future of Server Hardware?

[JF Mezei]

On 12-10-05 01:24, JohnF wrote:

> framework. (Though no matter how open OpenCL is, OS X is way too
> closed for my liking. Linux gets the job done just fine, without
> leading me around like a bull with a ring through its nose.)

OS-X is moot as Apple exited the server market. They had interesting
efforts to use GPU as compute assist, but that was before Jobs decided
to get out of the server market. I suspect effors to develop the Unix
side of OS-X have slowed greatly once they decided to make OS-X more
like IOS.

Also, the heavy compute apps on OS-X tend to be games and things like
Google Earth which already make use of the GPU to render graphics.