On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:42:25 +0100
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
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.
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