RapidMind

RapidMind

Infobox Company
name = RapidMind Inc.

type = Private
foundation = Waterloo, Ontario, 2004
founder = Michael McCool
Stefanus Du Toit
location_city = Waterloo, Ontario
location_country = Canada
key_people = Ray DePaul (CEO)
Stefanus Du Toit (Chief Architect)
Matthew Monteyne (VP, Marketing)
Ray Newmark (VP, Sales)
Michael McCool (Chief Scientist)
industry = Computer software
products = RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform
homepage = [http://www.rapidmind.com/ RapidMind.com]
intl = yes

RapidMind Inc. is a privately held company founded and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It provides a software product that aims to make it simpler for software developers to target multi-core processors and accelerators such as GPUs [ [http://www.financialpost.com/magazine/story.html?id=215855 "Innovator: Power to the processors"] , Financial Post (2008-01-08). Retrieved on 2008-10-04.] .

History

RapidMind was started in 2004 based on the academic research related to the Sh project at the University of Waterloo. It received a seed round of financing (amount undisclosed) at the beginning of 2006, and raised its Series A round of $10 million Canadian in April 2007 [ [http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199200910 "Multicore platform provider wins $10M"] ] , EE Times (2007-04-23). Retrieved on 2008-10-04.] .

RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform

The RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform is RapidMind's primary product. It is exposed as a set of C++ libraries, which provide types and operations used to express parallel computations [ [http://www.ddj.com/cpp/199902702 "RapidMind: C++ Meets Multicore"] , Dr Dobbs Journal (2007-06-08). Retrived on 2008-10-04.] . The programming model is primarily data parallel, although it is sufficiently generic to express task-parallel operations. The platform currently targets multi-core x86 processors, GPUs (via OpenGL), and the Cell processor.

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