fate acquired founded waterloo ontario 2004 founder michael mccool stefanus du toit defunct august 19 2009 2009 08 19 headquarters waterloo ontario canada 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 in waterloo ontario canada acquired by intel in 2009 . it provided a software product that aims to make it simpler for software developers to target multi core processors and accelerators such as graphics processing units gpus . 1 history edit rapidmind was started in 2004 based on the academic research related to the sh project at the university of waterloo . it received a seed round of financing amount undisclosed at the beginning of 2006 and raised its series a round of 10 million canadian in april 2007 . 2 rapidmind was acquired by intel on 19 august 2009 . 3 intel continued to sell the rapidmind multi core development platform through 2010 . the rapidmind team and technology was integrated into the intel ct research project . the results of the combination were introduced in september 2010 as intel array building blocks . 4 5 6 multi core development platform edit a multi core development platform was rapidmind s primary product and continued to be sold by intel . it is exposed as a set of c libraries which provide types and operations used to express parallel computations . 7 the programming model is primarily data parallel although it is sufficiently generic to express task parallel operations . the platform targeted multi core x86 processors gpus via opencl and the cell processor . references edit innovator power to the processors financial post 2008 01 08 . retrieved on 2008 10 04 . multicore platform provider wins 10m ee times 2007 04 23 . retrieved on 2008 10 04 . rapidmind intel intel blog 2009 08 19 ntel array building blocks . 29 november 2011 . retrieved 6 june 2013 . intel flexes parallel programming muscles hpcwire 2010 09 02 . retrieved on 2010 09 14 . parallel studio 2011 now we know what happened to ct cilk and rapidmind dr. dobbs journal 2010 09 02 . retrieved on 2010 09 14 . rapidmind c meets multicore dr dobbs journal 2007 06 08 . retrieved on 2008 10 04 . this technology article about a corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rapidmind & oldid 722294278 categories gpgputechnological company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 may 2016 at 04 49 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view