Maturation of Highly Parallel Technology

Affordable parallel systems now out-perform the best conventional supercomputers
Performance per dollar is particularly favorable.
The field is thinning to a few very capable systems.
Reliability is greatly improving.
Third party scientific and engineering applications are appearing.
Business applications are appearing.
Commerical customers, not just research labs, are acquiring systems.

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