I agree, and I can't wait for someone (or, more likely, some group) to figure out how to parallelise arbitrary programs across GPUs and CPUs in a way that is tr

I agree, and I can't wait for someone (or, more likely, some group) to figure out how to parallelise arbitrary programs across GPUs and CPUs in a way that is transparent to the programmer - or as nearly so as possible. I spend a lot of my "fun time" writing agent-based systems which involve multiple objects all running the same set of code within a single environment. A person could be forgiven for thinking that computers should be able to "just run it" on all these CPU or GPU cores but it doesn't work out that way right now unfortunately. I have tried Haskell but it's quite hard to do real work with, or maybe I am just dumb :-) No doubt answers will come with time. Perhaps the "pain" of slow CPU cores will force one (or some) of us to put in some time to writing the type of solution I refer to in my first paragraph. (The related concept of "peak oil" springs to mind.)