Acceleware Ltd. (abbreviated AXE) is a Canadian innovator of clean-tech enhanced heavy oil recovery technology and a developer of software solutions for the oil industry. Acceleware is composed of three business units: Radio Frequency (RF) Heating; Seismic Imaging Software; and custom Software Acceleration Services.
RF Heating:
The low-cost, low-carbon production technologies for heavy oil and oil sands are materially different from any other innovation on the market today. RF XL and Modular RF use no water, require no solvent, have a small physical footprint, can be redeployed from site to site, and can be adapted to a multitude of reservoir types, while greatly reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs).
Acceleware’s RF energy commitment is threefold:
- To dramatically improve production economics;
- To greatly increase access to vast unproven oil reserves; and
- To significantly improve the environmental performance of oil sands and heavy oil production.
Seismic Imaging Software:
The seismic imaging software solutions are state of the art for high fidelity imaging, providing the most accurate and advanced imaging available for oil exploration in complex geologies. Acceleware offers both off-the-shelf software via their network of distributors, as well as custom seismic software solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of clients.
Software Acceleration Services:
As experts in programming for multi-core CPUs and massively parallel GPUs, Acceleware’s professional services team specializes in accelerating computationally intense applications for clients to speed up product design, analyze data and help them make better business decisions. Acceleware’s products and services are used by some of the world’s largest energy and engineering companies. Acceleware also specializes in industry leading GPU training courses, available both publicly and privately.
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.
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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 (GPUs) became the main hardware focus, as their parallel processing capabilities and extremely high memory bandwidth made them superior for accelerating scientific applications.
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.
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 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.
In June 2009, Acceleware published their company's web-log at acceleware.com/blog.
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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
- Julyâ€"Acceleware undergoes a management restructuring and a major downsizing due to poor market conditions
- Marchâ€"Acceleware enters the image reconstruction market.
- Januaryâ€"Acceleware enters the seismic migration market.
2007
- Januaryâ€"Nvidia invests $3 million in Accelware.
2006
- Januaryâ€"Acceleware goes public on the TSX Venture Exchange (Symbol: AXE)
2005
- Accelerator V1.0 is launched at IEEE MTT-S IMS for the electromagnetic simulation market
Acceleware Products
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.
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