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RapidMind Supports AMD, Intel Multicores


By P. J. Connolly
November 15, 2007 — 
RapidMind has taken its namesake development platform out of the realm of niche processors and gone mainstream. The company on Nov. 5 is set to announce RapidMind 3.0, which upon its release next month will add support for multicore CPUs from AMD and Intel to its capabilities.

The platform incorporates a code optimizer that attempts to reduce overhead by analyzing computations for instructions that don’t need to be performed in sequence. A load manager schedules the work from one core to the next, while a data manager sorts out the flow of information, and logging diagnostic tools report performance bottlenecks and other mishaps. Processor-specific support modules allow the RapidMind platform to communicate with the underlying hardware, while at the top of the stack, the RapidMind API supports Linux and Windows applications.

RapidMind claims dramatic improvements in performance compared with applications running natively; a dual quad-core system scoring 100 frames per second on a digital media benchmark rings up 10 times that figure with RapidMind 3.0, according to the company’s figures.

RapidMind 3.0 will work with both Linux and Windows on AMD and Intel multicore processors, as well as with the ATI Radeon 1X00 and 2X00 GPU families and NVIDIA GPUs. It also can run on IBM’s 9-core Cell BE, in that company’s QS20/30 blade and in the Sony PlayStation 3.


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