Comment Re:Supercomputer Cluster? (Score 1) 68
Sure. But the goal was educational, not production, what they did is pretty reasonable. That is, they built a large cluster of computers for kids to learn parallel programming on, using dirt-cheap commodity components accessible to kids. Sure, it's not a supercomputer in that it won't be on the Top 100 list, but it's a good educational "trainer" supercomputer, in that learning parallel programming teaches the the programming models (though not the specific languages) used by the real supercomputers.
Now, if they could get FORTRAN running parallel on the cluster, that's be really useful for teaching kids to be ready for supercomputing! Not as 'hip' as Node.js, but really useful for doing supercomputing.