Company Overview
About RapidMind
Multi-core processors offer tremendous performance gains, but few applications take full advantage of this new technology because of the significant complexity of parallelizing across the multiple cores.
Applications that are not multi-core enabled will suffer a performance decrease as it will only run on a single core, and will not scale as the number of cores increases.
While efforts to multi-thread an application may take advantage of multiple cores, these projects are ambitious, time-consuming and error-prone. Multi-threaded applications are harder to develop and test, which requires a level of development expertise which is difficult to find. Software organizations are all too aware of the real fear of releasing an unstable solution that quickly fails in the field.
Traditional approaches force software organizations to choose between either decreased performance or longer, more expensive development cycles. In most cases, these organizations are limiting themselves to single-core processing and leaving incredible business benefits on the table.
Based in Waterloo, Canada, RapidMind is a venture-backed private company that is built on over five years of advanced research and development. The company’s mission is to allow software developers to continue to focus on their application, rather than the processors. RapidMind will ensure those applications perform extremely well on the exciting innovations being introduced by processor vendors such as AMD, IBM, Intel and NVIDIA.
RapidMind’s customers embrace the multi-core disruption to deliver higher performing software with less effort than their counterparts. The award-winning RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform simplifies the development of parallel applications, reducing the cost and timelines of software development when compared to multi-threaded projects, and greatly improves the likelihood of project success. We are committed to providing our customers with a substantial competitive advantage. Let us show you how.
