I think the usage implies it’s so easy to parallelize that any competent programmer should be embarrassed if they weren’t running it in parallel. Whereas many classes of problems can be extremely complex or impossible to parallelize, and running them sequentially would be perfectly acceptable.
Random but why is “embarrassing” or similar adjectives so often used to describe a parallel program? What’s embarrassing about it?
“Embarrassingly parallelizable” is just the term for a process that can be perfectly paralleled.
rather odd choice of adjective though
I think the usage implies it’s so easy to parallelize that any competent programmer should be embarrassed if they weren’t running it in parallel. Whereas many classes of problems can be extremely complex or impossible to parallelize, and running them sequentially would be perfectly acceptable.
It’s in the same spirit as the phrase “an embarrassment of riches”. So a bit of an archaic usage.
It’s commonly used in some corners of computer science