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Let's look at http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2014/webinar/gtc-express-acoates-webina.... The author works for Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab. Baidu is the Chinese Google. About as Silicon Valley as it gets.

we can find silicon valley using MPI, but it's not widespread. Another instance that comes to mind is this not heavily cited 2007 work from yahoo using mpi for indexing:

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-75416-9_21

True, but the reason it is widespread is not for the reasons that Dursi states. The primary reasons are sociological and economic, rather than technical. Jeff -- Jeff Hammond [email protected] http://jeffhammond.github.io/