"What we're doing now is trying to build up asetofparallel activities with equal importance, with the oil company being the most established and largest activity we have outside shipping, " he said.
It greatly simplifies parallel programming, enabling GPU acceleration ofa broader setof popular algorithms, such as adaptive mesh refinement, fast multipole methods and multigrid methods.
He has set up a series of councils of advisers to act as aparallel source of thinking to the ministries, but has left even the councils baffled as to who is in charge of what.