It's not a waste of resources, it's just a different approach to solving a problem. Hadoop / "big data" clusters make the problem harder to solve (and probably

It's not a waste of resources, it's just a different approach to solving a problem. Hadoop / "big data" clusters make the problem harder to solve (and probably even restrict the types of problems that can be solved) in exchange for cheap hardware. Supercomputers give engineers the ability to solve problems in a traditional manner, while moving the costs over to the hardware.