Most institutions that have a real supercomputer also has clusters that are used for tasks that does not need fast interconnect. The reason is that there is quite some tasks that does not need fast interconnection, and for those a cluster is OK, and a cluster costs a fraction of a supercomputer.
Tasks in bioinformatics "decoding human genome" is typically of this type, and are generally performed on clusters, even if a supercomputer is available. Where I used to study, applications for CPU time at the supercomputer for workloads that could run on a cluster was generally rejected, and directed to the clusters instead.
Tasks in bioinformatics "decoding human genome" is typically of this type, and are generally performed on clusters, even if a supercomputer is available. Where I used to study, applications for CPU time at the supercomputer for workloads that could run on a cluster was generally rejected, and directed to the clusters instead.