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Remember that supercomputers are expensive. They will also crush any PC based system for throughput. What is the backplane speed of a PC around 600 MB/s max!! Large mulitprocessor computers like the Sun E10000 have 64 processors with a backplane speed of over 9.0 G/s (This is processor to processor, memory to process via a switched backplane). This machine can crush any of these Beowolf clusters but the cost is in the millions. How many Universiy research groups can afford a million dollar supercomputer and the staff to run it? Do not call the supercomputers dead just because of your lack of knowledge.