| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded | Waterloo, Ontario, 2004 |
| Founder | Michael McCool Stefanus Du Toit |
| Defunct | August 19, 2009 (2009-08-19) |
| Fate | Acquired |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Ray DePaul(CEO) Stefanus Du Toit(Chief Architect) Michael McCool(Chief Scientist) Matthew Monteyne(VP, Marketing) Ray Newmark(VP, Sales) |
| Products | RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform |
| Website | RapidMind.com |
RapidMind Inc. was a privately held company founded and headquartered inWaterloo, Ontario,Canada, acquired byIntel in 2009. It provided a software product that aims to make it simpler for software developers to targetmulti-core processors and accelerators such asgraphics processing units (GPUs).[1]
RapidMind was started in 2004 based on the academic research related to theSh project at theUniversity of Waterloo. It received a seed round of financing (amount undisclosed) at the beginning of 2006, and raised itsSeries A round of $10 million Canadian in April 2007.[2]
RapidMind was acquired byIntel on 19 August 2009.[3] Intel continued to sell RapidMind's primary product, a Multi-core Development Platform, through 2010. The RapidMind team and technology was integrated into theIntel Ct research project. The results of the combination were introduced in September 2010 asIntel Array Building Blocks.[4][5][6]
The platform was exposed as a set ofC++ libraries, which provide types and operations used to express parallel computations.[7] The programming model was primarilydata parallel, although it was sufficiently generic to expresstask-parallel operations. The platform targetedmulti-corex86 processors, GPUs (viaOpenCL), and theCell processor.
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