> a huge sponsoring program that saw universities flooded with their hardware This is really important, and I don't think people quite realise the scale. I was

> a huge sponsoring program that saw universities flooded with their hardware This is really important, and I don't think people quite realise the scale. I was doing a Physics MSc in 2012 and it seemed that almost everybody in computational physics was doing some variant of reimplementing Y with CUDA. That's not to say it was the wrong tool for many of the jobs – though for some it apparently was, judging by the levels of stress – but I did find it a bit weird how this was an approach to research that pretty much completely ignored vendor lock-in.