an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . july 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message acceleware ltd. type public tsx v axe industry high performance computing founded 2004 headquarters calgary alberta canada key people ryan schneider founder & cto michal okoniewski founder & chief scientist rob miller vp geoff clark ceo products hardware acceleration software number of employees 38 q3 2009 slogan processing superpower website acceleware.com acceleware ltd. abbreviated axe is a calgary based software development company producing software that enables software vendors to utilize parallel processing multi core hardware environments without having to modify their applications . acceleware is part of a larger computing industry trend towards parallel processing via multi core and massively parallel gpu hardware and software architectures . 1 acceleware solutions can be found in software servicing the following industries electromagnetics oil and gas medical imaging security imaging industrial product design consumer product design financial research and academic research . contents 1 history 2 milestones 2.1 2013 2.2 2012 2.3 2010 2.4 2009 2.5 2008 2.6 2007 2.7 2006 2.8 2005 3 acceleware products 4 references history edit acceleware was founded in 2004 in calgary alberta canada . extensive research on special purpose hardware was conducted and acceleware developed competence accelerating scientific computing software applications . graphics processing units gpus became the main hardware focus as their parallel processing capabilities and extremely high memory bandwidth made them superior for accelerating scientific applications . 2 gpu computing using a graphics processing unit to compute mathematical algorithms parallelizes complex tasks so that many equations may be calculated at one time as opposed to cpu computing which requires that these tasks be done in sequence . this parallelization results in a reduction of the time and costs required for highly complex and intensive simulations . 3 in january 2008 acceleware entered into the seismic market providing hardware acceleration for seismic migrations a logical progression as they are based in calgary canada one of the world s hubs for oil and gas activity . 4 in march 2008 acceleware also entered into the imaging reconstruction market to provide fast ct image reconstruction . the technology utilizes accelerated algorithms such as filtered back projection image reconstruction to increase the speed of operations and the quality of their end results . in july 2008 market conditions and lack of available venture capital forced acceleware to scale back its growth plans and reduce staff . today the company remains focused on the electromagnetics seismic and engineering simulation markets . it has also adopted a more software oriented process now that gpu computing technology has become more accepted and generally available . 5 in june 2009 acceleware published their company s web log at acceleware.com blog . 6 milestones edit 2013 edit acceleware reaches milestone with 100th hpc programming course 7 2012 edit acceleware releases high performance tti axrtm . a 2.5 x improvement in speed over previous tti axrtm 8 acceleware introduces c amp training courses in partnership with microsoft acceleware surpasses 90 training classes held to over 1000 students 2010 edit appointment of geoff clark as ceo 9 acceleware partners with crosslight 10 acceleware partners with paradigm 11 2009 edit acceleware offers professional code porting and training services . 12 2008 edit july acceleware undergoes a management restructuring and a major downsizing due to poor market conditions 13 march acceleware enters the image reconstruction market . january acceleware enters the seismic migration market . 2007 edit january nvidia invests 3 million in accelware . 14 2006 edit january acceleware goes public on the tsx venture exchange symbol axe 2005 edit accelerator v1 .0 is launched at ieee mtt s ims for the electromagnetic simulation market acceleware products edit acceleware products are software libraries created to utilize the parallel processing capabilities of nvidia gpus to allow consumers to process difficult simulations migrations and other engineering tasks . they are offered as an sdk api to software integrators or as a plug in option to end users . references edit viewpoint mass gpus not cpus for eda simulations . 2009 . nvidia 8800 gtx exposed and exploited . 2007 . exploring weak scalability for fem calculations on a gpu enhanced cluster pdf . 2007 . rob tv . 2007 . nvidia tesla personal supercomputer . 2008 . acceleware blog . 2009 . acceleware reaches milestone with 100th hpc programming course . 18 march 2013 . acceleware updates rtm featuring enhanced imaging and nvidia kepler support . 14 august 2012 . appointment of geoff clark as ceo . 17 september 2010 . acceleware partners with crosslight . 19 january 2010 . acceleware partners with paradigm . 9 june 2010 . acceleware offers professional services . 4 march 2009 . acceleware completes management restructuring reduces expenditures and refocuses business plan following withdrawal of short form prospectus offering . 22 july 2008 . nvidia invests 2.9 m in acceleware . 22 january 2007 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title acceleware & oldid 671312271 categories companies listed on the tsx venture exchangecompanies based in calgarygpgpuhidden categories articles with a promotional tone from july 2015all articles with a promotional toneuse dmy dates from july 2013pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured 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