> Although the OpenCL infrastructure doesn't confine itself to it, this
> compute-on-the-graphic-processor type of parallellism mostly concerns
> itself with "let's do the FFT (or DGEMM) really fast on this processor
> and then return to the user".

Not really, it's not about FFT/DGEMM only -- the parallel stuff can be
expressed in a high-level language, and the communication cost is
actually something you have to consider seriously.

> If it isn't (surely not for us meteorology types) this approach is of
> limited use.

I'm pretty sure you meteorology guys can benefit quite from it.

Paolo

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