Nvidia announced the acquisition of Portland Group
Nvidia today announced the acquisition of Portland Group, specializing in the production of compilers. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. It is obvious that this purchase will strengthen itself Nvidia solutions on the market for GPU-computing gaining popularity, as well as the market for mobile chips ARM, giving the market more comprehensive solutions for mobile computing and graphics "turnkey".
Portland Group Company previously known as PGI, it was founded in 1989 and is engaged in the creation of compilers for Fortran and C languages for processors from Intel, including the RISC-processor Intel i860. In recent years the company has been compilers for "highly-parallel multithreaded computing." The company has a long history of working with Intel, as well as with a number of large users of supercomputers worldwide.
Portland is actively developing compilers for supercomputers U.S. Department of Energy. company also wrote custom compilers for AMD and Cray. Recently, Portland dealt solutions for programming under CUDA technology manufacturing Nvidia, as well as the development platform for micro-processors with ARM.
With Nvidia Portland worked in the Project Denver, where the tuning of ARM-compatible architecture. Nvdia The statement said that the Portland team will join the group of programmers Nvidia, which employs 2,400 people. Companies also noted that after the implementation of the transaction and Portland will continue to interact with Cray , Allinea, CAPS, TotalView and other manufacturers.
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