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Enterprise Software - Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Google Buys Sequoia-backed, Multi-Threaded Code Startup Peakstream

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Google has bought out PeakStream for an undisclosed amount. Peakstream's site is down currently but it sells a software application platform for single-threaded applications on multi-core chips.

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Peakstream officially launched last September after more than a year in stealth mode paid for with $17M in VC investment. PeakStream's product is basically a set of tools—APIs, a virtual machine, a system profiler, a JIT compiler and more—that represent a standardized, stream-processing-based programming model for which programmers can develop multithreaded applications. A program written to PeakStream's APIs can be compiled once and run on a variety of multiprocessing platforms.

PeakStream's product is aimed at the high-performance computing market, specifically customers in the oil and gas, defense, and finance industries, as well as in academia. Google says that it will make the products available to their uses, but our guess is that Google will use Peakstream for internal reasons, to make its own machines run better, and to own that secret sauce. We'll have to see.

Read - Google shivs server crowd with PeakStream buy (The Register)
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