This is very similar to the idea of Sh/RapidMind (eventually acquired by Intel.) Some details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lib_Sh https://en.wikipedia.org/w

This is very similar to the idea of Sh/RapidMind (eventually acquired by Intel.) Some details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lib_Sh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lib_Sh https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2005/cmsc828v/papers/p787-mccool.pdf https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2005/cmsc828v/papers/p787... Never really took off. In the end OpenCL and CUDA were the winners in this space and OpenCL and CUDA, while explicit GPU languages, can be simulated on the CPU. I think this pattern will continue.