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Re:Joe Armstrong: Solving the wrong problem by peerst on Thursday March 28, 2013 @08:03AM (#5454317)
"modern parallel computing" ... well not everything that can run parallel on multi core CPU's can run very well on a GPU.

I'm using Erlang and GPU programming each for its area of expertise. FWIW I even use both together via https://github.com/tonyrog/cl

Erlang is great at asynchronous concurrency which happens to be able to run in parallel well because of how the VM is built.

GPU's solve totally different problems

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Re:Joe Armstrong: Solving the wrong problem by seanmcdirmid on Thursday March 28, 2013 @08:59AM (#5454483)
Yes, erlang is great for concurrency, GPUs are great for significant scalable parallelism. They both solve different problems, I agree, and that's my point.
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