Perhaps the most prominent ongoing theme in my recent coverage of the rise of so-called "general-purpose GPU" (GPGPU) and "many-core" hardware is that such massively parallel hardware is difficult to ...

Writing applications to support multiple CPU cores is not an easy task, and in some cases, it is even harder if you want to take a huge existing application and adapt it for multiple cores. So I ...

RapidMind and JetBrains are, respectively, boosting products for parallel programming and Java, with RapidMind adding standards support and JetBrains emphasizing SQL capabilities. RapidMind said ...

Waterloo, Ontario—The RapidMind Developer Platform 2.0 from RapidMind Inc. is designed to help developers of high-performance computing and enterprise software accelerate their applications on ...

Remember way back when PeakStream was acquired by Google? That acquisition was characterized by total silence, and then PeakStream disappeared into the Googleplex to become a competitive advantage for ...

Canadian company RapidMind (which recently closed a $10M venture round) announced this week that it’s RapidMind Platform 2.0 product has entered general availability. The RapidMind software solution ...

Intel has acquired software company RapidMind in an effort to push development of programs that can exploit the power of Intel’s multicore processors, the company said Friday. The chip maker plans to ...

RapidMind and JetBrains are respectively boosting products for parallel programming and Java, with RapidMind adding standards support and JetBrains emphasizing SQL capabilities. RapidMind said Monday ...

Waterloo tech firm unlocks the potential of multi-core computing You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Imagine playing Second Life with Google ...

Intel has acquired software company RapidMind in an effort to push development of programs that can exploit the power of Intel’s multicore processors, the company said Friday. The chip maker plans to ...