[Fot] State of F1

[Larry Young]

PC's are already about as fast serially as a supercomputer, so the only 
answer is massively parallel.  This makes programming a nightmare except 
for problems that are huge and easily split into many separate unrelated 
tasks.  CFD is not one of them. I remember back in the early 90s I would 
hear every year "This is the Year for Parallel Computing".  I don't 
think is will ever happen.

Bill Babcock wrote:
>  Super computers are either extremely fast in a serial
> sense (limited) or massively parallel. If they are massively parallel
> than everything that runs on them needs to be optimized up the wazoo,
> and it's terrifically difficult to get stuff to work well.