Origin of term "Embarassingly parallel"

Kolbuszewski, Marcin Marcin.Kolbuszewski at nrc.ca
Thu Nov 30 07:18:53 PST 2000


Hi,

This might be slightly off-topic - but hopefully still interesting -
question.
Term "embarassingly parellel" is used quite often in context of work we are
interested in.
Do you know who made/used this term first time?

Cheers,

Marcin Kolbuszewski
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