When this concept was previously posted on HN, the top comment pointed out how it's the pipes that are inefficient when working on GPUs due to copying data from the CPU to the GPU and vice-versa for each command & pipe pair. I think even if we don't get pipes per se but I think we could expose GPGPU resources in a unix-like way but I suppose it depends on driver support.
But as to your question, a lot of traditional tools like grep, sed, aren't really suited for the GPU unless you are running them on a lot of files at once.
But as to your question, a lot of traditional tools like grep, sed, aren't really suited for the GPU unless you are running them on a lot of files at once.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5803943