I recently learned that Britain is spending £36 million to upgrade a supercomputer:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79rjg3yqn3o
Can’t you buy a very powerful gaming computer for only $6000?
CPU: AMD R9 9950X3D
Graphics: Nvidia RTX 5080 16GB
RAM: 64GB DDR5 6000MHZ RGB
https://skytechgaming.com/product/legacy-4-amd-r9-9950x3d-nvidia-rtx-5090-32gb-64gb-ram-3
This is how this CPU is described by hardware reviewers:
AMD has reinforced its dominance in the CPU market with the 9950X3D, it appears that no competitor will soon be able to challenge that position in the near future.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d/29.html
If you want to add some brutal CPU horsepower towards your PC, then this 16-core behemoth will certainly get the job done as it is an excellent processor on all fronts, and it has been a while since have been able to say that in a processor review
https://www.guru3d.com/review/ryzen-9-9950x3d-review-a-new-level-of-zen-for-gaming-pcs/page-29/
This is the best high-end CPU on the market.
Why would you spend millions on a supercomputer? Have you guys ever used a supercomputer? What for?
If your gaming computer can do x computations every month, and you need to run a simulation that requires 1000x computations, you can wait 1000 months, or have 1000 computers work on it in parallel and have it done in one month.
Keep in mind that not all work loads scale perfectly. You might have to add 1100 computers due to overhead and other dcaling issues. It is still pretty good though, and most of those clusters work on highly parallelised tasks, as they are very suited for it.
There are other work loads do not scale at all. Like the old joke in programming. “A project manager is someone that thinks that 9 women can have a child in one month.”