Peakstream Intros Beta Stream Processing Platform For Windows
News Posted 28/03/07
Author: PV5150
Source: TG Daily
Nvidia’s CUDA Technology, which was released a few months ago and can create supercomputers by combining the processing capability of common CPUs with the resources of modern graphics cards. By simply adding the horsepower of graphics cards to an existing computer, the company claims that the original system can be accelerated by a factor of 20x.
Peakstream today announced a new version of its application interface, which enables developers to take advantage of the floating point horsepower of graphics cards under Windows. No doubt this is good news for distributed computing enthusiasts amongst us.
| The new software, currently offered as a beta download from Peakstream’s website, follows a Linux version that was released in September of last year. According to the developer, Peakstream Workstation for Microsoft Windows combines a set of extensive Math libraries in C/C++ with an optimizing runtime and a set of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 tool extensions to simplify the development of multi-threaded applications for multi-core CPUs and GPUs.
The application interface and virtual machine handles work scheduling and memory management and a way for programmers to easily access a combined system of processors – such as x86 or Cell chips – and graphics cards. According to Peakstream, the system requires only a “minimal learning curve.” The company recommends ATI graphics processors for its software; it was unclear if the software also supports Nvidia-based graphics cards. |
The Linux version of the software is currently priced at $2000 per computing node with volume discounts being available for large cluster systems. It looks like we may have to wait a little longer for the free version 😀
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