Google purchases Peakstream (Multiprocessor software company)

Google has bought Peakstream as reported by the register.
Peakstream is a company that focuses on making software to exploit to the maximum capability the resources provided by multicore CPUs and principally GPUs.

I talked about stream processing before in this article.
Peakstream solutions where aimed toward the HPC (High Performance Computing) market, like the pharmaceutical, financial and oil business but it was actually acquired by probably the only company which has just as deep pockets and maybe a greater need for computing power, Google.

This graph illustrates peakstream concept, to bridge diverse parallel computing resources to offer solutions to high demand spaces.

If Google prepares to use GPUs along its servers there could be two winners, mainly Nvidia and AMD, tha latter already sells its GPU as stream processors.
Peakstream software can also further enable the Cell chip to be used in a more diverse capacity.

Though Google undoubtedly will use the technology to augment its server and internal processing capacity as its needs for this are great (Google which makes its own servers prefers to have this capabilities in-house). It may just as well provide solutions based on Peakstream to the sectors I mentioned above. This possible solutions not only include complete products but services as well, like processing on demand.

The only major player left in the space Peakstream played is Rapidmind.
Which could become more valuable in the future if Google pushes de adoption of GPGPU.

I think this developments will have a tremendous impact in the near future.