I think we will be contending with this sort of barrier for a while on desktop software. 32 cores used to be massively parallel 10 years ago, 15 years ago it wa

I think we will be contending with this sort of barrier for a while on desktop software. 32 cores used to be massively parallel 10 years ago, 15 years ago it was nuts to think that we'd have that in a get-it-from-Newegg offering. Massively parallel operations take a different focus on your MPI/bus/queue architecture than we've ever needed for desktop software. BUT I think what we've already seen is that in general purpose computing there will always be someone ready to consume resources as they are available. Both feet don't move at the same time, one takes a step and then the other.