[lrenaud]

It's a fun article, but it actually drives me to a question: is it possible (by which I mean remotely feasible) to design a user experience from the ground up around a massively parallel system?

Let's say you had some low speed hardware to support a beefy GPU in a case, could a manageable operating system be built that wouldn't spend all of it's time in IO-wait? I like the idea and challenge in designing this way, but I don't see a way forward that doesn't just fall back on the architecture of core computational unit with specialized auxiliary units quite rapidly.