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{{Short description|American software company}}
{{more citations needed|date=September 2015}}
{{Infobox company
| name                = ArrayFire
| logo                = ArrayFire logo.svg
| type                = [[private company|Private]]
| foundation          = June 2007
| location            = 3520 Piedmont Rd NE<br />Suite 415<br />[[Atlanta, Georgia]] 30305<br /> [[United States]]
| key_people          = John Melonakos ([[CEO]])
| industry            = [[High-performance computing]]
| products            = [[Computer software]]
| homepage            = {{URL|arrayfire.com}}
}}

'''ArrayFire''' is an American software company that develops programming tools for [[parallel computing]] and [[computer graphics|graphics]] on [[graphics processing unit]] (GPU) chipsets. Its products are particularly popular in the [[defense industry]].<ref name="hpcwire">{{cite web |title=AccelerEyes Launches GPU Engine for MATLAB |url=http://www.hpcwire.com/2009/01/26/accelereyes_launches_gpu_engine_for_matlab/ |website=HPCwire |date=26 January 2009}}</ref>

==Products==
The company's first major product was [[Jacket (software)|Jacket]],<ref>{{Cite patent|country=US|number=8339404|pubdate=2012-12-25|title=System for improving utilization of GPU resources|assign1=Accelereyes LLC|inventor1-last=Pryor|inventor1-first=Gallagher|inventor2-last=Malcolm|inventor2-first=James G.|inventor3-last=Melonakos|inventor3-first=John|inventor4-last=ur Rehman|inventor4-first=Tauseef}}</ref> a [[Library (computing)|library]] that extends [[MATLAB]] with [[GPGPU]] capabilities on [[CUDA]]-enabled [[Nvidia]] GPUs, released in June 2008 (version 1.0 in January 2009{{r|hpcwire}}).

Jacket was followed by ArrayFire, a similar GPGPU extension for [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]] and [[Fortran]].<ref name=arrayfire>{{cite web|url=http://www.accelereyes.com/products/arrayfire |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130116064631/http://www.accelereyes.com/products/arrayfire |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-16 |title=ArrayFire - GPU library for C, C++, Fortran, and Python |publisher=AccelerEyes |date=2012-02-02 |accessdate=February 2, 2012 }}</ref> 

ArrayFire is partially funded by [[DARPA]], who uses it in its "[[Vertical search#DARPA's Memex program|Memex]]" [[dark web]] search software.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Watch out Google, DARPA just open sourced its tech |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/world/watch-out-google-darpa-just-open-sourced-its-tech-78468 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=21 April 2015}}</ref>

Since version 3.4 the library is Open Source.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arrayfire.com/blog/arrayfire-v3-4-official-release-2/|title = ArrayFire v3.4 Official Release &#124; ArrayFire}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{official website|www.arrayfire.com}}

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