| Type | Public (TSX-V: AXE) |
|---|---|
| Industry | High Performance Computing |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Key people | Ryan Schneider, Founder & CTO Michal Okoniewski, Founder & Chief Scientist Rob Miller, VP Geoff Clark, CEO |
| Products | Hardware Acceleration Software |
| Employees | 38 (Q3 2009) |
| Website | acceleware.com |
Acceleware Ltd. (abbreviated AXE; TSX-V: AXE) is a Calgary-based software development company, producing software that enables software vendors to utilize parallel processing, multi-core hardware environments without having to modify their applications.
Acceleware is part of a larger computing industry trend towards parallel processing via multi-core and massively-parallel GPU hardware and software architectures.[1]
Acceleware solutions can be found in software servicing the following industries: electromagnetics, oil and gas, medical imaging, security imaging, industrial product design, consumer product design, financial research, and academic research.
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Acceleware was founded in 2004, in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Extensive research on special-purpose hardware was conducted, and Acceleware developed competence-accelerating scientific computing software applications. Graphics processing units (GPUs) became the main hardware focus, as their parallel processing capabilities and extremely high memory bandwidth made them superior for accelerating scientific applications.[2]
GPU Computing (using a graphics processing unit to compute mathematical algorithms), parallelizes complex tasks so that many equations may be calculated at one time, as opposed to CPU computing which requires that these tasks be done in sequence. This parallelization results in a reduction of the time and costs required for highly complex and intensive simulations.[3]
In January 2008, Acceleware entered into the seismic market, providing hardware acceleration for seismic migrations, a logical progression as they are based in Calgary, Canada one of the world’s hubs for oil and gas activity.[4]
In March 2008, Acceleware also entered into the imaging reconstruction market to provide fast CT image reconstruction. The technology utilizes accelerated algorithms, such as filtered back-projection image reconstruction, to increase the speed of operations and the quality of their end results.
In July 2008, market conditions and lack of available venture capital forced Acceleware to scale back its growth plans and reduce staff. Today, the company remains focused on the electromagnetics, seismic, and engineering simulation markets. It has also adopted a more software-oriented process now that GPU computing technology has become more accepted and generally available.[5]
In June 2009, Acceleware published their company's web-log at acceleware.com/blog.[6]
Acceleware products are software libraries created to utilize the parallel processing capabilities of Nvidia GPUs to allow consumers to process difficult simulations, migrations, and other engineering tasks. They are offered as an SDK/API to software integrators or as a plug-in option to end users.