http://wamc.org/post/why-supercomputer-so-superfast Pretty interesting story I heard on the radio on the way home from work today. Just for the record, though, I'm of the opinion that a market, or the profit motive for that matter, are not prerequisites for innovation. But this is still cool - the things that this computer can calculate may very well help scientific fact encompass grandiose portions of the empirical world - global climate change, subatomic physics, etc.
