What kind of work benifits from OpenCL

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Hey All

First of all:

I am well aware that OpenCL does not magically make everything faster
I am well aware that OpenCL has limitations

So now to my question, i am used to do different scientific calculations using programming. Some of the things i work with is pretty intense in regards to the complexity and number of calculations. SO i was wondering, maybe i could speed things up bu using OpenCL.

So, what i would love to hear from you all is answers to some of the following [bonus for links]:

*What kind of calculations/algorithms/general problems is suitable for OpenCL

*What is the general guidelines for determining if some particular code would benefit by migration to OpenCL?

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