Verily I say unto thee, that ed spake thusly:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:42:25 +0100
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Sony Studies Commercial PlayStation 3 Supercomputing Grid
>>
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>> | With an estimated 6 million PlayStation 3s sold, it's little wonder
>> | that pharmaceutical companies, medical startups, and other
>> businesses | would be hot to chat with Sony about building a
>> supercomputing grid | that they could tap into.
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>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070412/tc_cmp/199000285
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> didn't sun try that? i dont know the architecture behind the grid, but
> i think the idea was to send anything to them that could run in
> thread/parallel and they would send you the results back.
>
> i think there was also some intention behind people getting xbox's when
> they first emerged and to use them for clustering, as at the time the
> hardware was cheap. although it did not take long for that hardware to
> become over priced compared to the rest of the market, component for
> component.
Plus it's probably not a very bright idea to run eXb0rks at maximum
utilisation 24/7, since they have the nasty habit of melting.
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K.
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