An embarrassingly parallel invitation

In 2008, six people publicly issued an embarrassingly parallel invitation. They gave six pages of detail:

Invitation to embarrassingly parallel computing,” Barbara J. Breen, Christine E. Weidert, John F. Lindner, Lisa May Walker, Kasey Kelly, and Evan Heidtmann, American Journal of Physics, vol. 76, no. 4 (2008): 347-352.

BONUS: Further detail on the general problem.