RapidMind’s Multi-core Development Platform Supports Mac OS X

By DE Editors

RapidMind Inc.‘s (Waterloo, Ontario) flagship product, the RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform, now supports the Mac platform; the software solution allows companies to take advantage of the performance gains offered by the families of Intel Xeon CPUs. With this Multi-core Development Platform, RapidMind, leveraged in 3D visualization, image processing, video editing, and broadcast-quality encoding, offers the digital media industry up to 10x performance improvement on third-party Adobe Photoshop effects. As processor vendors continue to add cores to boost performance, application developers are experiencing challenges due to the complexity involved in parallelizing across multiple cores. In addition to Mac OS, the RapidMind Platform supports Windows and Linux multi-core CPUs from AMD and Intel. Look for RapidMind Inc.‘s demonstration at Macworld Expo, January 15-18, in San Francisco.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.