What you've described sounds like the existing hardware abstraction present in virtual machine monitors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor http://en.wiki

What you've described sounds like the existing hardware abstraction present in virtual machine monitors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor In my very layman's opinion, this is a much different problem. Specifically the cost-benefit of discrete vs. MIC for calculations. HPC guys have tooled with it for a while trying to come up with a fast, yet cost effective method of crunching more data. Floating point acceleration specifically offers huge increases in speed for scientific modeling, but comes at a significant cost in terms of design, implementation and execution. This NVIDIA fluff PR piece was trying to prove something to the effect of, "Don't use on-processor floating point, use our discrete solution!"