I find it a safer bet that there are terrible economics all over. Especially when the buyers are not the users, as is usually the case with supercomputers (just like with all "enterprise" stuff).
In the cluster I'm using there's 36 nodes, of which 13 are currently not idling (doesn't mean they are computing). There are 8 V100 GPUs and 7 A100 GPUs and all are idling. Admittedly it's holiday season and 3AM here, but this it's similar other times too.
This is of course great for me, but I think the safer bet is that the typical load average of a "supercomputer" is under 0.10. And the less useful the hardware, the less will be its load.
In the cluster I'm using there's 36 nodes, of which 13 are currently not idling (doesn't mean they are computing). There are 8 V100 GPUs and 7 A100 GPUs and all are idling. Admittedly it's holiday season and 3AM here, but this it's similar other times too.
This is of course great for me, but I think the safer bet is that the typical load average of a "supercomputer" is under 0.10. And the less useful the hardware, the less will be its load.