They are easier to perform on server farms which lack the special infrastructure used in a true supercomputer cluster.
They are well-suited to large, Internet-based volunteer computing platforms such as BOINC, and suffer less from parallel slowdown.
[3] Some forms of password cracking are another embarrassingly parallel task that is easily distributed on central processing units, CPU cores, or clusters.
[4] The term may imply embarrassment on the part of developers or compilers: "Because so many important problems remain unsolved mainly due to their intrinsic computational complexity, it would be embarrassing not to develop parallel implementations of polynomial homotopy continuation methods.
Indeed, the famous Hello World problem could easily be parallelized with few programming considerations or computational costs.