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Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine and Office & Sharepoint pro.com Name the RapidMind Platform Best of Tech-Ed 2007 Awards FINALIST
Waterloo, Ontario - MAY 31, 2007 - Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine and Office & Sharepoint Pro.com today announced that the RapidMind Platform 2.0 has been named a finalist for the Best of Tech·Ed 2007 Awards in the Developer Tools and Technologies category. The overall category winner will be determined at Tech·Ed 2007 (June 4-8 in Orlando, FL), and announced at the award reception hosted by Windows IT Pro, June 6 at 7:00pm (EDT) at the Peabody Hotel.
“The field included more than 260 entries and after technically evaluating all of the entries, we chose finalists based on the product’s strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages and the value to the customer,” said Michael Otey, Technical Director for Windows IT Pro.
“We are ecstatic to be selected as a finalist in the Best of Tech·Ed 2007 Awards,” said Ray DePaul, President and CEO of RapidMind Inc. “This nomination again validates RapidMind’s importance to the software industry, looking to simplify the complexities of multi-core programming to deliver enterprise applications with the ever increasing performance their customers demand.”
The RapidMind Platform 2.0 enables developers to more quickly and easily build higher performing applications that for the first time exploit the full capabilities of multi-core processors, including the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) from IBM and graphics processor units (GPUs) from AMD and NVIDIA. The RapidMind platform offers the widest hardware and operating-system support and broad applicability in enterprise and high-performance computing (HPC).
With RapidMind, developers continue to use standard C++ and their existing compilers and tools, and rely on the RapidMind platform to “parallelize” across multiple cores.
More than 1,000 developers of HPC and enterprise software are using RapidMind to simultaneously gain the performance benefits of the new, exceptionally fast multi-core processors and the ease of single-threaded, single-core programming.