Does anyone think supercomputers are pointless?

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>Nowadays with full sharing (Or whatever tech word it is),
>you do just as well with 2000 pc ans with a supercomputer.

Not quite. Although some problems are suitable for a system with many nodes with large local memory and low speed IO, the majority of problems still need many nodes with small local memory but fast IO, which is where the supercomputer excells.


Andy