Finally Google has found out a solution to manage its huge server collection across the world by acquiring Peakstream. So I think google is advancing towards the half century at a fast pace.
As reported by a Register article posted earlier today, Google has acquired Peakstream Inc. Google confirms the acquisition, stating
“Yes, Google has acquired PeakStream. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed.”
From The Register’s article:
PeakStream had developed tools that improve the performance of single-threaded applications on multi-core chips. Such tools should prove useful to coders who don’t want to deal with complex, parallel code but do want to take advantage of performance gains delivered via products such as GPGPUs (general purpose GPUs) from Nvidia and AMD/ATI and even multi-core x86 processors.
Peakstream’s website and phone lines mysteriously crashed yesterday, indicating that the software maker was struggling to pay its bill or had been gobbled. Google Blogoscope got the quotation from peakstreams homepage which states that :
The PeakStream Platform is the first commercially available software application platform that makes it easy to program new high performance, multi-core and parallel processors, and convert them into radically powerful computing engines for computationally intense applications. Available in Linux and Windows, the PeakStream Platform is offered in two product editions – a Workstation Edition licensed for individual use in a desktop environment, and a Server Edition licensed for multi-user access in a “computing cluster” environment.
Hence Google would like to take all the performance gains for itself, by tuning its in-house software to run well on multi-core chips.