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Message 1956664 - Posted: 21 Sep 2018, 20:24:36 UTC
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Is there a chance? :)
Please developers, make tasks compatible with Apple's Metal API for GPU tasks, I think we just have to gain from it. Remembering that OpenCL is increasingly deprecated on Mac. Thank you and sorry for my poor English.
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Message 1959221 - Posted: 8 Oct 2018, 7:33:10 UTC - in response to Message 1956664.  

From inception Apple chosed closed-source way. There are consequencies of such decision. Users of Apple should be very aware of that. Why this company still has such big support eludes me.
From one side to make special app for Apple is good short-term decision for SETI, from another, it's just one more step on the road of coercion this company goes from beginning...
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Message 1959224 - Posted: 8 Oct 2018, 7:44:11 UTC

And following on from Raistmer - it would require a developer familiar with both the Apple specific "Metal" API and the various SETI@Home applications who was prepared to either do the development in their own time or come with their own funding.
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