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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 has released its Development Platform 3.0 for x86 processors, which it says can provide up to eight-fold performance boosts on quad-core CPUs on some applications. So far, RapidMind has ...

Intel just picked up RapidMind, a company that specializes in making it easy for developers to optimize and program their applications for multicore processors. Their technology sounds a little bit ...

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 ...