I would have said no until the release of so many multi-core processors. Now they have swarmed the Top 500 supercomputer list. But not every supercomputer has a cluster design because not every challenge is solved faster on a cluster. Will there continue to be custom-designed high-performance systems or will clusters take over completely? At some point, cluster hardware is so cheap that it might still perform the calculations faster than special-design hardware.
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