NASA’s New Quarter-Gigapixel Hyperwall

Yes - very impressive and cool BUT part of me wonders if this is just a waste of money - from a practical sense

  All of the raw power is impressive, but what do 
  they plan to do with it? Mostly, to visualize
  models run on the Pleiades. Displaying global
  tide patterns on the Hyperwall 2...

I'd rather my money went to other programs