Leadtek Research, based in Shanghai, is to act as a reseller for CAPS in China, distributing the latter's HMPP and related services.
CAPS provides end users of such systems with a breakthrough technology enabling to port legacy applications onto hybrid systems. An efficient and portable hybrid application is automatically produced from the source code of the application, annotated with directives or programs.
HMPP enables application developers to reduce the development time required for accelerating legacy code by taking advantage of the massively parallel Cuda architecture of Nvidia's GPUs.
'This partnership with a global player like Leadtek is one important step in our internationalisation strategy,' declares Benoît Raoult, CAPS APAC VP and general manager. 'It contributes to CAPS willing to ease and secure manycore computing adoption among the industry. This worldwide strategy will be adapted locally by Leadtek and its network among China ensuring great customer experiences.'
