Paul Krill
Editor at Large

PeakStream offers tool for multicore apps

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Mar 27, 20071 min

PeakStream is announcing on Tuesday availability of a beta release of PeakStream Workstation for Microsoft Windows Edition, which enables application developers to leverage multi-core processors. The product gives Windows developers the same PeakStream functionality already available for Linux. Developers can program high-performance processors such as multi-core CPUs and graphics processor units (GPU) on their

PeakStream is announcing on Tuesday availability of a beta release of PeakStream Workstation for Microsoft Windows Edition, which enables application developers to leverage multi-core processors.

The product gives Windows developers the same PeakStream functionality already available for Linux. Developers can program high-performance processors such as multi-core CPUs and graphics processor units (GPU) on their desktops.

Featured in the Windows offering is a set of math libraries in C/C++ with an optimizing runtime and a set of Visual Studio 2005 tool extensions for rapid application development. An API insulates code from low-level hardware details and ensures portability across future hardware platforms without recoding, PeakStream said.

PeakStream recommends the product be used with an AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon workstation or server running a GPU such as the ATI Radeon 1950 or the AMD Stream processor.

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