Altivec

Power Fractal is a numerically-intensive parallel graphics application that computes a Mandelbrot-like fractal and displays processor performance statistics. This app uses the AltiVec, SSE, and multiple processors (MP) for its computations and uses UCLA AppleSeed's MacMPI library for... Platforms: Mac

Native MacOSX realtime, Altivec powered sound processing application Platforms: Mac, BSD, Linux

The 3ivx team is dedicated to providing video compression solutions. MacMPEG2Decoder is probably the most affordable MPEG2 to QuickTime application for MacOS since it is totally free. The original application was written by VLich who brought it to version 1.0b5. We are taking over VLich's... Platforms: Mac

libdvbcsa is a free implementation of the DVB CSA (Common Scrambling Algorithm) with decryption and encryption capabilities. Here are some key features of "libdvbcsa": Portability: ?*A* This library has been successfully tested on different processors with 32 bits, 64 bits and 128 bits word... Platforms: *nix

cxmon is an interactive command-driven file manipulation tool that is inspired by the "Amiga Monitor" by Timo Rossi.The project has commands and features similar to a machine code monitor/debugger, but it lacks any functions for running/tracing code. There are, however, built-in PowerPC, 680x0,... Platforms: *nix

Liboil is a library of simple functions that are optimized for various CPUs. These functions are generally loops implementing simple algorithms, such as converting an array of N integers to floating-point numbers or multiplying and summing an array of N numbers. Such functions are candidates... Platforms: *nix

LFMats goal is to furnish convenient matrix tools for the finite element methods. Actually, theres a lot of libraries for linear algebra on the net, but it seems that its still hard to find flexible and high performance free software for the required procedures (genericity, speed, adaptated... Platforms: *nix

Simple Sound for Small Devices (libsssd) is a simple cross-platform audio library. Simple Sound for Small Devices is designed primarily for games on portable devices such as smart phones, PDAs, and hand-helds. Simple Sound for Small Devices is designed as a very portable, cross-platform API for... Platforms: *nix

macstl is a C++ header library designed to bring the world of generic programming to the Macintosh, and deliver the surprising speed of SIMD in an intuitive cross-platform package. For example, a simple loop calculating a trigonometric function over an array can be speeded up 450 times. Generic... Platforms: *nix

PearPC is an architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems. This release fixes an ugly partition mapping bug which prevented PearPC to boot OpenDarwin. But the fix might cause regressions: so if your image is no longer booting and you can... Platforms: *nix

SWH Plugins are a set of audio plugins for the LADSPA plugin system. You will need libfftw version 2 or 3 installed with 32 bit float support (eg. for FFTW3 use --enabe-float), for FFTW recommend you specify the approriateSIMD isntruction set for your CPU with --enable-sse, --enable-sse2,... Platforms: *nix

Mops is a full featured, stand-alone development environment for programming the Macintosh. Inspired by Smalltalk and the commercial language Neon, Mops is based on Forth with extended object-oriented features such as multiple inheritance, early and late binding, persistent objects, and garbage... Platforms: Mac

Gaston provides interactive, stereoscopic real-time 3D rendering of 4D quaternion Julia set fractals. Show off the awesome speed of your Mac with this totally useless toy! Any rendered image can be exported to make for a nice desktop background. Gaston can also be used as a benchmark for... Platforms: Mac

Pooch QuickTime Exporter... QuickTime Compression Acceleration using ClustersAs video codecs in QuickTime necessarily become more advanced to achieve higher compression ratios to accommodate viewer expectations, they also become more compute hungry, therefore making the content take longer to... Platforms: Mac

Octave Shifter is a free real-time pitch shifting audio effect for Apple's Audio Unit architecture.By leveraging existing technologies like CoreAudio, Altivec and SSE, Octave Shifter offers a unique audio experience.Key features of the Audio Unit include:real-time, low latency processing for live... Platforms: Mac

A Cocoa application dedicated to the processing of astronomical digital images taken through a telescope. It is a 'Universal binary' running natively on PowerPC and Intel Macintoshes. It is optimized for vectorized instructions sets (Altivec or SSE), multi-processor and multi-core machines. It... Platforms: Mac

GROMACS is a versatile package to perform molecular dynamics, i.e. simulate the Newtonian equations of motion for systems with hundreds to millions of particles. It is primarily designed for biochemical molecules like proteins, lipids and nucleic acids that have a lot of complicated bonded... Platforms: Mac, Linux

FFFF is the fastest Win32/OSX/Linux/IRIX Mandelbrot generator. Features OpenGL, realtime zoom, SSE/AltiVec QuadPixel, SSE2/3DNow! DualPixel calc, FPU per pixel calc, GPU asm (Fragment/Vertex) calc, multiprocessor support, and benchmarking. Opt asm code! Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Mops is a full featured, stand-alone development environment for programming the Macintosh written by Mike Hore. Inspired by Smalltalk and the commercial language Neon, Mops is based on Forth with extended object-oriented features such as multiple inheritance, early and late binding, persistent... Platforms: Mac

Octave Shifter 2 is a free real-time pitch shifting audio effect for Apple's Audio Unit architecture. By leveraging existing technologies like CoreAudio, Altivec and SSE, Octave Shifter 2 offers a unique audio experience. Key features of the Audio Unit include: * real-time, low latency... Platforms: Mac, Audio Unit host application