RapidMind Launches Educational Initiative to Help Software Industry Cope with the Onslaught of Multi-Core Processors.WATERLOO, Ontario Coordinates: Waterloo is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is the smallest of the three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, and is adjacent to the larger city of Kitchener. -- RapidMind Inc., developers of the award-winning RapidMind Platform, today announced the launch of educational initiatives helping software developers embrace multi-core processors. This initiative includes a series of web seminars, hands-on workshops and conference events showing developers how to leverage their existing skills and tools to take advantage of the tremendous performance potential of multi-core processors. Anchoring this activity is the RapidMind Developer Portal (http://developer.rapidmind.net). Launched in May 2007, the RapidMind Developer Portal is a gathering point for developers in the RapidMind community, and offers a robust set of resources including technical forums, code samples, product documentation, and free downloads of the full-featured Developer Edition of the RapidMind Platform. RapidMind's series of web seminars kicks off on Thursday, June 28 at 2:00 PM EDT EDT abbr. Eastern Daylight Time EDT Eastern Daylight Time EDT n abbr (US) (= Eastern Daylight Time) → hora de verano de Nueva York EDT , with a presentation from Chief Architect, Stefanus Du Toit on programming multi-core processors. This webinar is designed to introduce developers who have little or no previous experience with multi-core processor programming to the RapidMind Platform. At the end of this one-hour tutorial An instructional book or program that takes the user through a prescribed sequence of steps in order to learn a product. Contrast with documentation, which, although instructional, tends to group features and functions by category. See tutorials in this publication. , developers will have the basic skills required to immediately begin enabling their applications for multi-core. Additional educational web seminars and hands-on workshops have been scheduled throughout the remainder of the year; session information is available at www.rapidmind.net. "Developers are struggling to build applications that run on multi-core processors. They are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. advice, a way to reach out to others in the industry, and perhaps leverage the efforts of a peer who has already solved a similar problem, " said Dr. Michael McCool, RapidMind founder and chief scientist. "With the RapidMind Developer Portal, they have an environment in which they can interact with their peers, seek advice or offer suggestions." Previously, applications got faster as processor clock speeds increased, however, software must now evolve to take advantage of multiple cores to improve performance. The RapidMind Platform enables High-Performance Computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. (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. ) and enterprise software 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[TM] (Cell/B.E.) from IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Graphics Processing Units See GPU. (GPUs) from 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. ([R])and NVIDIA([R]). "The free lunch is definitely over - developers need to change their approach," added McCool. "However, they can use their existing skills, tools and processes to target Cell and 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. today, and be ready for multi-core CPUs tomorrow. We will show them that they are more prepared for multi-core than they realize." InnerVision Medical Technologies Inc. is an example of one company that is leveraging the RapidMind Developer Portal as a source of knowledge for RapidMind's technology and multi-core programming. "In our vision of future medial medial /me·di·al/ (me´de-il) 1. situated toward the median plane or midline of the body or a structure. 2. pertaining to the middle layer of structures. me·di·al adj. care, screening for breast and prostate cancer prostate cancer, cancer originating in the prostate gland. Prostate cancer is the leading malignancy in men in the United States and is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death in men. is as convenient and available as measuring blood pressure. We are using the RapidMind platform today to harness the performance of multi-core processors - a key requirement for achieving this vision," said Tim Davies, founder and chief science officer of InnerVision. InnerVision develops ultra-high resolution, instant-capture, acoustic-based imaging systems for the medical sector. "The RapidMind Developer Portal is an invaluable tool to help our developers understand not only the RapidMind platform, but the challenges and benefits of multi-core technology." For more information about RapidMind's upcoming educational sessions, the RapidMind Developer Portal, or the RapidMind Platform, please visit www.rapidmind.net or contact info@rapidmind.net. For media inquiries, please contact Melissa A. Drozdowski by telephone at (336) 376-5318 or via email at mdrozdowski@interprosepr.com. About RapidMind RapidMind provides an award-winning software platform that allows software vendors to deliver high performance on multi-core and stream processors, including GPUs and the Cell BE. Without sacrificing development simplicity, RapidMind-enabled applications experience a dramatic leap in performance. For more information on RapidMind, visit http://www.rapidmind.net. |
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