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Grand Central is a technology developed by Apple to optimize multicore application support in Mac OS X 10.6.^[1]

This new architecture is designed to make it easier for application developers to take advantage of multiple CPU cores now being offered in computers. The technology works by splitting tasks into blocks and routing them to available processing cores efficiently. The sophisticated process management built into the kernel and programming language conventions enables individual developers to take advantage of a wide variety of different hardware that users might have at their disposal, without needing to become experts in multithreading themselves. ^[2]

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