<s>
In	O
parallel	B-Operating_System
computing	I-Operating_System
,	O
an	O
embarrassingly	B-Operating_System
parallel	I-Operating_System
workload	O
or	O
problem	O
(	O
also	O
called	O
embarrassingly	O
parallelizable	O
,	O
perfectly	O
parallel	O
,	O
delightfully	B-Operating_System
parallel	I-Operating_System
or	O
pleasingly	B-Operating_System
parallel	I-Operating_System
)	O
is	O
one	O
where	O
little	O
or	O
no	O
effort	O
is	O
needed	O
to	O
separate	O
the	O
problem	O
into	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
parallel	O
tasks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Thus	O
,	O
these	O
are	O
different	O
from	O
distributed	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
problems	O
that	O
need	O
communication	O
between	O
tasks	O
,	O
especially	O
communication	O
of	O
intermediate	O
results	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
They	O
are	O
easy	O
to	O
perform	O
on	O
server	B-Operating_System
farms	I-Operating_System
which	O
lack	O
the	O
special	O
infrastructure	O
used	O
in	O
a	O
true	O
supercomputer	B-Architecture
cluster	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
They	O
are	O
thus	O
well	O
suited	O
to	O
large	O
,	O
Internet-based	O
volunteer	B-Operating_System
computing	I-Operating_System
platforms	O
such	O
as	O
BOINC	B-Operating_System
,	O
and	O
do	O
not	O
suffer	O
from	O
parallel	B-Operating_System
slowdown	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
opposite	O
of	O
embarrassingly	B-Operating_System
parallel	I-Operating_System
problems	I-Operating_System
are	O
inherently	B-Operating_System
serial	I-Operating_System
problems	I-Operating_System
,	O
which	O
cannot	O
be	O
parallelized	B-Operating_System
at	O
all	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
common	O
example	O
of	O
an	O
embarrassingly	B-Operating_System
parallel	I-Operating_System
problem	I-Operating_System
is	O
3D	O
video	O
rendering	O
handled	O
by	O
a	O
graphics	B-Architecture
processing	I-Architecture
unit	I-Architecture
,	O
where	O
each	O
frame	O
(	O
forward	O
method	O
)	O
or	O
pixel	O
(	O
ray	B-Algorithm
tracing	I-Algorithm
method	O
)	O
can	O
be	O
handled	O
with	O
no	O
interdependency	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
forms	O
of	O
password	O
cracking	O
are	O
another	O
embarrassingly	B-Operating_System
parallel	I-Operating_System
task	O
that	O
is	O
easily	O
distributed	O
on	O
central	B-General_Concept
processing	I-General_Concept
units	I-General_Concept
,	O
CPU	B-Architecture
cores	I-Architecture
,	O
or	O
clusters	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
"	O
Embarrassingly	O
"	O
is	O
used	O
here	O
in	O
the	O
same	O
sense	O
as	O
in	O
the	O
phrase	O
"	O
an	O
embarrassment	O
of	O
riches	O
"	O
,	O
meaning	O
an	O
overabundance	O
—	O
here	O
referring	O
to	O
parallelization	B-Operating_System
problems	O
which	O
are	O
"	O
embarrassingly	O
easy	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
term	O
is	O
first	O
found	O
in	O
the	O
literature	O
in	O
a	O
1986	O
book	O
on	O
multiprocessors	B-Operating_System
by	O
MATLAB	B-Language
's	O
creator	O
Cleve	O
Moler	O
,	O
who	O
claims	O
to	O
have	O
invented	O
the	O
term	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
alternative	O
term	O
,	O
pleasingly	B-Operating_System
parallel	I-Operating_System
,	O
has	O
gained	O
some	O
use	O
,	O
perhaps	O
to	O
avoid	O
the	O
negative	O
connotations	O
of	O
embarrassment	O
in	O
favor	O
of	O
a	O
positive	O
reflection	O
on	O
the	O
parallelizability	O
of	O
the	O
problems	O
:	O
"	O
Of	O
course	O
,	O
there	O
is	O
nothing	O
embarrassing	O
about	O
these	O
programs	O
at	O
all.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
examples	O
of	O
embarrassingly	B-Operating_System
parallel	I-Operating_System
problems	I-Operating_System
include	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
The	B-Algorithm
Mandelbrot	I-Algorithm
set	I-Algorithm
,	O
Perlin	O
noise	O
and	O
similar	O
images	O
,	O
where	O
each	O
point	O
is	O
calculated	O
independently	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
computer	O
animation	O
,	O
each	O
frame	O
or	O
pixel	O
may	O
be	O
rendered	O
independently	O
(	O
see	O
parallel	B-Operating_System
rendering	I-Operating_System
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
brute-force	B-Algorithm
searches	I-Algorithm
in	O
cryptography	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BLAST	B-Application
searches	O
in	O
bioinformatics	O
with	O
split	O
databases	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Genetic	B-Algorithm
algorithms	I-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ensemble	O
calculations	O
of	O
numerical	B-General_Concept
weather	I-General_Concept
prediction	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
marching	B-Algorithm
squares	I-Algorithm
algorithm	I-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
Sieving	O
step	O
of	O
the	O
quadratic	B-Algorithm
sieve	I-Algorithm
and	O
the	O
number	B-Algorithm
field	I-Algorithm
sieve	I-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tree	O
growth	O
step	O
of	O
the	O
random	B-Algorithm
forest	I-Algorithm
machine	O
learning	O
technique	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Discrete	B-Algorithm
Fourier	I-Algorithm
transform	I-Algorithm
where	O
each	O
harmonic	O
is	O
independently	O
calculated	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Convolutional	B-Architecture
neural	I-Architecture
networks	I-Architecture
running	O
on	O
GPUs	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
R	B-Language
(	O
programming	O
language	O
)	O
–	O
The	O
Simple	O
Network	O
of	O
Workstations	O
(	O
SNOW	O
)	O
package	O
implements	O
a	O
simple	O
mechanism	O
for	O
using	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
workstations	O
or	O
a	O
Beowulf	B-Operating_System
cluster	I-Operating_System
for	O
embarrassingly	B-Operating_System
parallel	I-Operating_System
computations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Similar	O
R	B-Language
packages	O
include	O
"	O
future	O
"	O
,	O
"	O
parallel	O
"	O
and	O
others	O
.	O
</s>
