Acceleware Ltd. is a Canadian developer of software for the oil industry. Acceleware is part of a larger computing industry trend towards parallel processing via multi-core and massively-parallel GPU hardware and software architectures. 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.
History
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 became the main hardware focus, as their parallel processing capabilities and extremely high memory bandwidth made them superior for accelerating scientific applications. GPU Computing, 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. In January 2008, Acceleware entered into the seismic market, providing hardware acceleration for seismic migrations, a logical progression as they are based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada one of the world's hubs for oil and gas activity. 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. In October 2018, Acceleware entered into an agreement with AMD to provide them with Software Engineering Expertise and Consulting Services. In November 2019, Accelerate secured an investment from a Calgary-based oil sands producer for the RF XL pilot test of its radio frequency heating system.
Milestones
2013
Acceleware Reaches Milestone with 100th HPC Programming Course
2012
Acceleware releases high-performance TTI AxRTM. A 2.5x improvement in speed over previous TTI AxRTM
Acceleware introduces C++ AMP training courses in partnership with Microsoft
Acceleware surpasses 90 training classes held, to over 1000 students
2010
Appointment of Geoff Clark as CEO
Acceleware partners with Crosslight
Acceleware partners with Paradigm
2009
Acceleware offers professional code-porting and training services.
2008
July–Acceleware undergoes a management restructuring and a major downsizing due to poor market conditions
March–Acceleware enters the image reconstruction market.
January–Acceleware enters the seismic migration market.
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.
