Multicore Development Platform Uses Power of CPUs

By DE Editors

RapidMind Inc. (Waterloo, Ontario) announced RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform v3.0, a software solution that enables software organizations to more quickly take advantage of the performance gains offered by the new multicore CPU processors from industry leaders such as AMD and Intel.

RapidMind recently demonstrated the ease by which 5x to 10x performance advantages in financial and digital media applications were accomplished on multi-core CPUs.

While processor vendors such as AMD and Intel are adding cores to boost performance, few applications have realized those gains because of the complexity of parallelizing across the multiple cores. RapidMind has locked in on a key need in the software industry by enabling applications to fully utilize multicore processing power without requiring the complexity of multithreaded programming.

The RapidMind platform is being leveraged in developing applications for database transactions, image/video manipulation, enterprise search, data mining, real-time data analysis, 3D visualization, broadcast-quality encoding, medical imaging, film and TV content generation, image and signal processing, financial analysis, seismic analysis, and others.

Developers of HPC and enterprise software are using RapidMind to create manageable, single-threaded applications that leverage the full potential of multicore processors from AMD and Intel and to seamlessly take advantage of the application acceleration available from GPUs and the Cell Broadband Engine.

As a member of both the HP Multi-core Optimization and Accelerator Programs, RapidMind is collaborating with HP on solutions intended to deliver increasing levels of application performance in the face of the challenges created by the industry's transition to multicore processors.

The RapidMind Platform v3.0 offers both Windows and Linux support for multicore CPUs from AMD and Intel, in addition to the ATI Radeon 1X00 and 2X00 families of GPUs, NVIDIA GPUs including the Quadro card, GeForce series cards and Cell/B.E. hardware.

Please visit RapidMind for the full list of supported hardware and operating systems.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.