[jacquesm]

Another grumpy old man here. I disagree with your classification. By your analogy, you'd be building a classical Ferrari capable of the speeds of that classical Ferrari, not a model. The fact that it can't measure up to today's super computers does not mean that it isn't constructed along some of the same lines and shares a lot of traits with it. Back when Beowulf clusters first came into vogue all the 'real' supercomputer people were saying 'but that isn't a real supercomputer, you're using multiple CPU's' and we all know how that discussion ended.

Give the man a break, wait a couple of years and he'll give you a 4K core cpu supercomputer for little money, that needs to be encouraged, not talked down. It's early days.