http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/23/directx.11.with.gpgpu.tech/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0807/microsoftdirectx.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft's next version of DirectX will have its own alternative to the OpenCL standard proposed by Apple, the company revealed yesterday at its GamesFest conference. DirectX 11 will have support for "compute shader technology" that allows modern, more generalized video cards' effects processors to perform tasks other than rendering video, including physics calculations and other chores that wou... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/23/directx.11.with.gpgpu.tech/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/17/opencl.standard/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0806/nvidiateslat10p.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The Khronos Group late yesterday established a new alliance between vendors that could see standards for high performance computing such as OpenCL gain a foothold across many operating systems and hardware platforms. Called the Computer Working Group, the team includes graphics rivals 3DLabs, AMD, and NVIDIA, processor makers such as ARM, Freescale, Intel, and Qualcomm, and end product manufactur... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/17/opencl.standard/ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:40:00 GMT