The hearsay is that Power8 and GPUs seem like a convenient marriage as far as HPC in the data center goes, and GPUs are little endian. And although part of th

The hearsay is that Power8 and GPUs seem like a convenient marriage as far as HPC in the data center goes, and GPUs are little endian. And although part of the problems are solvable at the driver level, no one wants to spend time making all of the existing userspace GPU stuff endian clean. But maybe that's just rumors. From a personal perspective, I think no one will ever willingly bother investing into converting code to become endian safe. Especially so when dealing with complex (or systems) software. It's a real shame that in the 21st century we can't settle on something so basic as byte order.