University of Texas is Getting a $60 Million Supercomputer (cnet.com)

The University of Texas at Austin, will soon be home to one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. From a report: The National Science Foundation awarded a $60 million grant to the school's Texas Advanced Computing Center, UT Austin and NSF said Wednesday. The supercomputer, named Frontera, is set to become operational roughly a year from now in 2019, and will be "among the most powerful in the world," according to a statement. To be exact, it will be the fifth most powerful in the world, third most powerful in the US, and the most powerful at a university.

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[jellomizer]

Well more to the question, What is the university using the supercomputer for? Is it just 60 million dollar bragging rights, or did they get some grants for research project(s) that can cover the cost that could have effects to make it worth the cost?

Using a Supercomputer for a Shared system is general a waste of money, and you are better off with just a server farm, or (gasp) a cloud service (which is a server farm hosted remotely). However if there is a project that really is utilizing the full computer then a Super Computer is needed.