According to a Register article posted earlier today, Google has acquired Peakstream Inc.
From the article:
"PeakStream had developed tools that improve the performance of single-threaded applications on multi-core chips. Such tools should prove useful to coders who don't want to deal with complex, parallel code but do want to take advantage of performance gains delivered via products such as GPGPUs (general purpose GPUs) from Nvidia and AMD/ATI and even multi-core x86 processors."
Peakstreams website is currently out of commission and the cached copies aren't much to look at.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/05/google_buys_peakstream/
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Weird, the PeakStream homepage reads:
<<Important Notice:
PeakStream Internet Solutions is now a part of
LocalNet>>
... pointing to http://www.localnet.com (which has one of those "Internet search powered by Google" things, not that that means anything).
http://blogoscoped.com/files/peakstream-homepage.jpg |
That's peakstream.com. The homepage of the company is peakstreaminc.com , which is down.
The cache: http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:www.peakstreaminc.com/product/overview/+PeakStream |
Philipp, wrong URL. The PeakStream Inc, url is: http://www.peakstreaminc.com
I made that mistake earlier. I should have included the link in my original post.
Also here is the cached copy of the front page:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:CfdqP8qOg00J:www.peakstreaminc.com/+peakstream+inc&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a |
From the cache (similar to above description):
<<The PeakStream Platform is the first commercially available software application platform that makes it easy to program new high performance, multi-core and parallel processors, and convert them into radically powerful computing engines for computationally intense applications. Available in Linux and Windows, the PeakStream Platform is offered in two product editions – a Workstation Edition licensed for individual use in a desktop environment, and a Server Edition licensed for multi-user access in a "computing cluster" environment.>> |
