September 11, 1998

Most Social Scientists Shun Free Use of Supercomputers

By VINCENT KIERNAN

Are the machines too hard to use? Are some scholars simply happy with desktop PCs?

Social scientists, who frequently complain that the federal government does not spend enough money on them, are nevertheless passing up what scholars in other disciplines see as one of Washington's best giveaways -- free access to supercomputers.

While researchers in the physical and natural sciences have flocked to use the government's

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