It's not hard to believe. The idea that future of computing is related to parallel numerical computing and linear algebra (HPC, graphics ,scientific computing

It's not hard to believe. The idea that future of computing is related to parallel numerical computing and linear algebra (HPC, graphics ,scientific computing, data science, machine learning) predates current deep learning boom. Already in 2003 and GPGPU (General-purpose computing on graphics processing units) was a thing. OpenVidia came out in 2003.