"Less than a 10th the cost per GFlop of the $2500 supercomputer
Take 8 PS 3 consoles, Yellow Dog Linux, a Gigabit Ethernet switch and your favorite protein folding or gravitational wave modeling codes and you're doing real science. On a Playstation!
Try playing Ratchet & Clank on a Cray
Most scientific computing is done on cluster computers. Blue Gene/L, the world's fastest supercomputer, uses 130,000 processors. Plus a lot of money, power and cooling". -Robin Harris
If only I could turn those bad boys into a rendering farm I'd actually attempt it, but alas I'd need like 2gigs of ram per ps3.
I thought 1 is ment to be as powerful as a supercomputer what a load of fud, i dont really care just let me play the games and watch blueray movies. THis is such a cool artical lol :/
i want a super "model" ;)
Does it do games?
- Who cares when there's protein folding and gravitational wave modeling codes?!
B E Y O N D G A M 3 S !
So you Trolls continue to say there are no games...with PS3 games releasing just within the last week.......so is there a magic number of games that has to be out to shut you up....what is it 50? 100?...or is it just grasping at whatever you can to try and downtalk the superior console
@ Lex Luthor u troll
exactly u see....once you make a valid point..and take away their points validity...all they can say is.......uh...just STFU...........LOL I LOVE IT