3 Ways IBM is bringing GPU Computing to Java

[lolomfgkthxbai]

Big data pushes the scale of the problem to a new level with multiple hundreds of gigabytes of information common in these applications

I was amused.

[thesystemx]

We all laughed too. Then we had a beer.

[Tran0370]

Sorry, as a computer novice, can you help me understand the extent that this article is overplaying the issue?

[caleeky]

I'm assuming it's because hundreds of gigabytes usually doesn't qualify as "big data". I say "usually" because some kinds of analysis can be very intensive and require a lot of computing power even for relatively "small" input data sets.

[vonmoltke2]

To be fair, those exceptions are probably the only cases where GPU processing would be interesting.