PeakStream Announces Availability of PeakStream Workstation for Microsoft Windows(R) Edition beta.The Innovative PeakStream Platform, Designed to Harness the Power of Multi-Core Processors, is Now Available to an Expanded Developer Base REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. -- PeakStream, Inc., a leading software application platform provider for the high performance computing (HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. ) market, today announced its innovative PeakStream Platform[TM] is now available in beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. for Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. . PeakStream Workstation[TM] for Microsoft Windows[R] Edition allows software developers to easily program new high performance processors such as multi-core CPUs and graphics processor units (GPUs) directly on their desktops. Now, programmers working with Windows can enjoy the same advantages that their Linux-based counterparts have been benefiting from since the PeakStream Platform's initial launch last September: the ability to develop technical and scientific applications faster, and run them at higher performance, using their existing tools and programming languages. "The tremendous amounts of compute power locked inside graphics and multi-core processors hold great potential for expanding the opportunities within engineering, medical research, exploration and other critical human endeavors," said David Blythe, architect in the Desktop and Graphics Technologies group at Microsoft. "Microsoft is making such technology more mainstream by combining the strengths of the Windows platform and technologies from partners like PeakStream and bringing them to departments and divisions in commercial industry and the public sector." PeakStream Workstation for Microsoft Windows combines a set of extensive Math libraries in C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ with an optimizing runtime and a set of Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets programmers create standalone applications, web sites, web applications, and web services that run on any platforms 2005 tool extensions to enable rapid development of applications for multi-core CPUs and GPUs. With its newest offering, PeakStream is providing the first commercial grade software application platform available for Microsoft Windows that offers a high-level API that insulates code from low-level hardware details and ensures portability to future hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. without recoding Noun 1. recoding - converting from one code to another coding, steganography, cryptography, secret writing - act of writing in code or cipher . While alternative approaches ask developers to lock their applications into specific hardware implementations or master hardware-level interfaces, PeakStream allows programmers to develop applications that will easily scale across the rapidly changing and emerging world of multi-core processors and highly parallel systems. "We see Accelerated Computing as the next wave. Torrenza is an example of Accelerated Computing that will use different types of compute engines, such as AMD Stream processors, to enable applications to reach speeds previously thought impossible. New software platforms are key to enabling the full advantage of these Accelerated Computing architectures," said Marty Seyer, senior vice president, Commercial Segment and Advanced Solutions, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. . "It's great that Windows-based developers can now take advantage of the PeakStream Platform on AMD stream processors without having to become experts in graphics languages or multi-threaded programming." "The computing power that multi-core processors provide is the key to technical advances in so many industries, from the defense sector to financial services. Organizations, however, are understandably reluctant to invest time and money in developing applications tied to hardware architectures that will be obsolete within a few years. We believe that software capabilities to enable multi-core processors are pivotal to technical breakthroughs in key industries and we are excited to introduce a development platform that will allow the numerous programmers working on Windows to develop applications that can keep up with the rapidly evolving space," said Matthew Papakipos, founder and chief technology officer of PeakStream. Supported Platforms and Availability The PeakStream Platform Workstation for Microsoft Windows[R] Edition beta is currently available for download at www.peakstreaminc.com/microsoft. PeakStream recommends an AMD Opteron[TM] or Intel Xeon workstation or server equipped with a supported GPU GPU: see secret police. (Graphics Processing Unit) A specialized logic chip devoted to rendering 2D or 3D images. Display adapters contain one or more GPUs for fast graphics rendering. such as the ATI (ATI Technologies Inc., Markham Ontario, http://ati.amd.com) A leading manufacturer of graphics chips and display adapters. Founded in 1985 by K. Y. Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Lau, ATI chips and boards are widely used by OEMs. Radeon 1950[TM] or the AMD Stream Processor[TM]. NOTE: PeakStream's VP of Marketing, Michael Mullany, will be speaking at this week's Multicore Expo (http://www.multicore-expo.com/) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California. Michael will discuss "Data Parallel Programming Models for Many Core Architectures: Using a Virtual Machine for Code Parallelization" on Wednesday, March 28 at 2:20pm and Thursday, March 29 at 1:50pm. Both sessions will be in Room 3. About PeakStream, Inc. PeakStream redefines high performance computing (HPC) by providing an easy to use software application platform that leverages the power of a new generation of industry standard processors. From graphics processor units (GPUs) to multi-core central processing units See CPU. (architecture, processor) central processing unit - (CPU, processor) The part of a computer which controls all the other parts. Designs vary widely but the CPU generally consists of the control unit, the arithmetic and logic unit (ALU), registers, temporary buffers (CPUs), PeakStream enables developers to exponentially increase application performance and decrease time to solution. PeakStream is privately held and venture funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital and Foundation Capital. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. . For more information, visit PeakStream http://www.peakstreaminc.com. |
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