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vawrvawerawe · Nov 11, 2012, 01:34 PM

I was wondering what the reasonable cost and benefit, for those people who are not millionaires/billionaires (yet), for owning a reasonably-sized "supercomputer".

What would be some reasonable benefits for someone who is not doing any research or trying to solve PI or some other thing like that?

And what would classify the computer as a "Super" computer? For example, what would be the minimum requirements to be called one?

Obviously a Supercomputer can be massive and cost even billions of dollars. I'm not referring to the scale which would be out of reach of the middle class.

Nov 11, 2012, 01:34 PM	#1
vawrvawerawe Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 501 (2.62/day) Thanks: 269 Thanked 24 Times in 22 Posts	What is the reasonable Cost & Benefit for owning a "Supercomputer" & what is "Super"? I was wondering what the reasonable cost and benefit, for those people who are not millionaires/billionaires (yet), for owning a reasonably-sized "supercomputer". What would be some reasonable benefits for someone who is not doing any research or trying to solve PI or some other thing like that? And what would classify the computer as a "Super" computer? For example, what would be the minimum requirements to be called one? Obviously a Supercomputer can be massive and cost even billions of dollars. I'm not referring to the scale which would be out of reach of the middle class.