Isn't the great thing about consumer GPU processing like Nvidia's Cuda that it's pretty much everywhere, even in consumer devices? So that some research guy can

Isn't the great thing about consumer GPU processing like Nvidia's Cuda that it's pretty much everywhere, even in consumer devices? So that some research guy can convert his number-crunching code to run in parallel with Cuda right on his own workstation and see if it works. If it does, then he can later put it up and running on a more efficient server or cluster. But initially he gets to try if X times speed up works for him, without getting any special hardware just to try out.