It's critical for many scientific simulations: fluid dynamics, finite-element analysis, that sort of thing. A few years back I was helping try to track down and

It's critical for many scientific simulations: fluid dynamics, finite-element analysis, that sort of thing. A few years back I was helping try to track down and buy "outdated" K80s (or were they K40s?) to run a big FEA project because they still had the best FP64 performance reasonably available despite being otherwise outclassed.