They very much are practical for all sorts of research, e.g. simulations of molecular dynamics, fluid dynamics, light scattering etc, all very relevant for medi

They very much are practical for all sorts of research, e.g. simulations of molecular dynamics, fluid dynamics, light scattering etc, all very relevant for medical research for instance. A lot of the research work I do wouldn't really be practical without access to supercomputers, yet the results feed back into pretty much every high-tech industry.