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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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RapidMind yesterday announced a major new release of its RapidMind Multi-Core Development Platform. Version 3.0 is the first version that supports the multi-core x86 processors (Intel and AMD).

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 ...

There's a lot of money to be made in matching commodity GPU and multicore hardware to parallel datasets in finance, medicine, bioinformatics, etc. RapidMind 2.0 aims to be the industry's premier ...