Another side of this is that we don't really have supercomputers anymore, just piles of PC servers with fast network cards - which are called supers for pr reas

Another side of this is that we don't really have supercomputers anymore, just piles of PC servers with fast network cards - which are called supers for pr reasons. Supercomputer vendors mostly went bust in the 90s because it got too expensive to make custom computer architectures much faster than COTS.