Toy problems? GPGPU is widely used in real-world applications such as image proc...

		joefourier on Dec 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People Toy problems? GPGPU is widely used in real-world applications such as image processing, compression, computer graphics, physical simulations, cryptography and machine learning, which are all embarrassingly parallel. With regards to programming, I would not all CUDA and OpenCL crude at all.

Interesting in that almost all those problems are share-nothing, i.e. no shared state.