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by peerst 4824 days ago
"modern parallel computing" ... well not everything that can run parallel on multi core CPU's can run very well on a GPU.

I'm using Erlang and GPU programming each for its area of expertise. FWIW I even use both together via https://github.com/tonyrog/cl

Erlang is great at asynchronous concurrency which happens to be able to run in parallel well because of how the VM is built.

GPU's solve totally different problems

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Yes, erlang is great for concurrency, GPUs are great for significant scalable parallelism. They both solve different problems, I agree, and that's my point.