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Re:The software routing 260,000 grocery deliveries a week by michaelt on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @05:13PM (#15022646)
Our current design isn't well suited to adaption to a GPU, because it branches a lot and the memory accesses aren't strided evenly. So we couldn't just plug our current code into a java-to-cuda compiler; we'd need to change the design.

So no, we haven't yet tested using GPUs.

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Re:The software routing 260,000 grocery deliveries a week by sandGorgon on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @12:56AM (#15025032)
Thank you for the answer. I was not aware that these kind of considerations impact the cpu vs gpu debate. I was under the impression that most cpu heavy computations can be ported to the gpu.
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