Acceleware's CompetitionAcceleware's Competition:
From July 10, 2008 from: HPCwire
Of course there is competition. Companies like RapidMind are buildingsoftware akin to Acceleware's middleware for abstracting the hardwareand allowing software to be retargeted at FPGAs, Cell processors, GPUS,and so on, and this will be a good solution for many users outside theverticals that Acceleware is operating in. But for sheer ease of use,Acceleware seems to offer a product that is uniquely focused on makingthe transition from ordinary computing to supercomputing a seamless one.
May 7, 2007 from: ars technica
There are two new companies that, as near as I can tell, pretty well ownthe wide stretch of software-based middle ground that sits in betweenthese different industries' parallel datasets and the new generation ofcommodity parallel hardware: Peakstream and RapidMind.
Both RapidMind and Peakstream claim some pretty dramatic speedups versusexisting implementations in tests of their software. RapidMind showedme one financial options pricing benchmark (Black-Scholes) that they ranin conjunction with Hewlett-Packard, where the company was able toachieve a 32X speedup using the GPU and their middleware layer vs. HP'sbest shot at a CPU implementation using ICC.
June 5th, 2007
(Reuters) - GoogleInc. said on Tuesday it has acquired PeakStream Inc., a maker ofsoftware for running powerful computers, as the Web search leader seeksever more computer power. For an undisclosed sum.
Aug 21, 2009 - PC World
Intel has acquired software company RapidMind in an effort to pushdevelopment of programs that can exploit the power of Intel's multicoreprocessors, the company said Friday.
For an undisclosed sum.
If MSFT wants Acceleware they will have to pry it out of NVIDIA's cold dead hands.