29.10.2008 08:35 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Windows 7 will get acceleration using the GPU

Source : TGdailyMicrosoft continues its forced march to bring out its next variation of Windows (Windows 7) as soon as possible. This has a heavy role to play since it has to take the place Vista that failed to convince the general public. One now starts to know a little more about the system, but in fact, much less than what Microsoft did in the past. They now seem to want to play with secrecy and not to reveal information on what it will be able to do. It is known now that this system, in the vein of Snow Leopard should be able to draw on the graphics processors so as to accelerate certain calculations. In an ideal world, Microsoft would take the train of the Open CL that Apple tries to impose as an open standard. But we are ready to bet that this acceleration will be supported by an API of Microsoft, a kind of Direct X adapted with the sauce GPGPU. It will be interesting to follow the battle between Snow Leopard

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