I would like to mention another benefit with massive amounts of cores.
The fold@home project got a HUGE HUGE HUGE boost with the PS3 Client and the Video Card client.
With supercomputers at the hands of many thousands... It will become much easier to do massive amounts of CPU intensive research never before possible without NASA or IBM supercomputers.
One of the main ones is of course health. Where projects like Fold@home give massive amounts of refined data that mostly likely will end up with us finding preventive and treatment measures for a number of diseases in the future.
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