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eelsenon How the Internet Ruined San Francisco (1999)

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This is clearly an amazing resource on advanced GPU programming regardless of programming language.

Try programming in both CUDA and OpenCL and see which one you would choose.

eelsenon Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention

So his comment is more along the lines of, "I was using a screwdriver to pound in this nail and it was taking forever, but then I started using a hammer and man...it went fast!"

eelsenon Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention

“The speed ups over PostGIS … I’m not an expert, and I’m sure I could have been more efficient in setting up the system in the first place, but it was 700,000 times faster,” Mostak said. “Something that would take 40 days was done in less than a second.”

eelsenon Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention

The claim of a 700,000x speedup makes me suspicious of pretty much everything else about the work.