Products x265, UHDcode, MxPA Headquarters Saratoga Number of employees 250 | Founded 2009 Number of locations 6 (2015) Type of business Private | |
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Industry Software Products & Services Key people A.G. Karunakaran (CEO)
Prof. Wen-mei Hwu (CTO) Services video/ image processing, convolutional neural networks, software performance optimization Website www.multicorewareinc.com Profiles | ||
Iwocl 2015 mapping c amp to opencl hsa multicoreware
MulticoreWare Inc is a software development company, offering products and services related to (i) HEVC video compression, (ii) machine learning (specifically, Convolutional Neural Networks), (iii) compilers for Heterogeneous Computing, and (iv) software performance optimization. MulticoreWare's customers include AMD, ARM, Microsoft, Google, Telestream and BBright Technologies. MulticoreWare was founded in 2009 and today has offices in 3 countries – USA, China and India.
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- Iwocl 2015 mapping c amp to opencl hsa multicoreware
- x265
- UHDcode
- x265 HEVC Upgrade
- Multicore Cross Platform Architecture
- HCC C
- Software Development Services
- References
MulticoreWare was placed at 110 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in America for the year 2014. St. Louis, Missouri based technology start-up accelerator ITEN listed the company in its list of top ten tech startups in the St. Louis area for three consecutive years (2012-2014). MulticoreWare was ranked the 22nd fastest growing private company in Silicon Valley by Silicon Valley Business Journal in October 2014. In July 2014, MulticoreWare was named to EE Times Silicon 60, a list of hot startups to watch. MulticoreWare Inc. was a Tie50 Awards Finalist at TiEcon2014.
x265
MulticoreWare leads the development of the x265 HEVC encoder. x265 is based on the x264 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoder with a similar command-line syntax and feature set. x265 is offered under either the GNU General Public License (GPL) 2 license or a commercial license. In February 2014, Telestream's Vantage Transcode Multiscreen became the first commercial product to introduce x265 encoding technology. In October 2015, the Video Group at Moscow State University identified x265 as having the highest overall efficiency (i.e. the lowest bit rate at any target quality level) in its first comparison of HEVC encoders.
UHDcode
MulticoreWare offers the UHDcode HEVC video decoder API, available on x86, ARM, Xbox 360 and PS3. It has been OpenCL accelerated and supports HEVC Main/ Main10 profiles.
x265 HEVC Upgrade
In March 2015 MulticoreWare launched x265 HEVC Upgrade, which includes the x265 Encoder application and the UHDcode DirectShow filter, allowing HEVC video playback on 64-bit Windows Media Player.
Multicore Cross Platform Architecture
Multicore Cross Platform Architecture (MxPA) is a heterogeneous computing stack based on the LLVM framework, capable of supporting OpenCL, Renderscript, CUDA and C++ AMP.
HCC C++
HCC is an open source parallel C++ compiler for HSA and OpenCL 1.2. HCC provides compiler frontends for C++AMP, C++ source with parallel STL and OpenMP.
Software Development Services
MulticoreWare has one of the world’s largest heterogeneous computing teams across the globe and offers accelerated software development services. MulticoreWare is a Contributor Member of the Khronos Group and is active on several standards. Its full range of services include: