RapidMind Inc. was a privately held company founded and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, acquired by Intel in 2009.
[1] RapidMind was started in 2004 based on the academic research related to the Sh project at the University of Waterloo.
[3] Intel continued to sell RapidMind's primary product, a Multi-core Development Platform, through 2010.
[4][5][6] The platform was exposed as a set of C++ libraries, which provide types and operations used to express parallel computations.
[7] The programming model was primarily data parallel, although it was sufficiently generic to express task-parallel operations.