What are some practical problems that parallel computing, f#, and GPU-parallel processing might solve.

Question

Recently WiFi encryption was brute forced by using the parellel processing power of the modern GPU http://is.gd/4fhb. What other real-life problems do you think will benefit from similar techniques?

Answer 1

Most batch-processing tasks can be parallised and are well suited to the stream processors in GPUs. Folding. Seti. All those gubbins are already working well on GPUs.

Answer 2

Image processing which is just fancier signal processing which is massively parallel math.

given that, perhaps face recognition, voice recognition, video decode/encode, audio decode/encode, encryption/decryption

Answer 3

• Computational fluid dynamics
• Physics processing
• Ray tracing
• Data mining
• Medical imaging
• Control engineering software
• Digital signal processing
• Bioinformatics

In fact, check out this page for a lot more examples of where GPGPU has been used.

To name a few.