Dr. Dobb's | Multi-core CPUs, Accelerators, and the Many-core Future: A unified software approach with RapidMind

Multi-core CPUs, Accelerators, and the Many-core Future: A unified software approach with RapidMind

Learn how the RapidMind Development Platform unifies the software development process and programming model for a variety of processors, including multi-core CPUs and GPUs. The generally applicable, single-source solution provided by RapidMind makes heterogeneous multi-core development as easy as single-threaded, single-core programming.

July 03, 2007
URL:http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/multi-core-cpus-accelerators-and-the-man/200900303

Multi-core CPUs, Accelerators, and the Many-core Future: A unified software approach with RapidMind

Date / Time
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
11:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM CT / 2:00 PM ET
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Duration
60 minutes

Presented By
Dr. Dobb's Journal Vendor Perspectives NetSeminar

Michael McCool — Chief Scientist at RapidMind

Overview

Unlike in the past, where applications simply got faster as the clock speed of processors increased, software now has to change to take advantage of multiple cores to improve performance. Traditionally, harvesting performance from these additional cores requires programmers to use complex parallel programming tools and methodologies specific to each vendor's processor architecture.

With RapidMind, developers can 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 (Cell/B.E.) from IBM and graphics processor units (GPUs) from AMD and NVIDIA. Developers continue to use standard C++ and their existing compilers and tools, and rely on the RapidMind platform to "parallelize" across multiple cores.

More than a 1,000 developers of HPC and enterprise software are using RapidMind to simultaneously gain the performance benefits of the new, exceptionally fast multi-core processors and the ease of single-threaded, single-core programming.

Giveaway:
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