Sometimes, there's a big hole in the side of the ship, and the industry decides to wait until the ship starts sinking in hope of selling lifeboats.
At other times, less severe flaws resemble the door in my downstairs bathroom, which opens only if you turn the handle one direction, not the other. I’ll fix it one day, although I've said that for 12 years or so.
I can count nine issues confronting the big data business that fall at either extreme ... or somewhere in between.
Big data pain point No. 1: General-use GPU programming
CPUs are still kind of expensive, or at least compared to GPUs. If better standards and fewer obscure drivers were developed for GPUs, a whole marketplace would open up. For now, the fact that GPUs cost a lot less is outweighed by the fact it is much harder to program them and virtually impossible to do so without tying yourself to a very specific model.
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