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____/ Jerry McBride on Thursday 27 December 2007 20:04 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with Eight PlayStation 3s
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>> | The interest in the PS3 really was for two main reasons," explains
>> | Khanna, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts,
>> | Dartmouth who specializes in computational astrophysics. "One of those
>> | is that Sony did this remarkable thing of making the PS3 an open
>> | platform, so you can in fact run Linux on it and it doesn't control what
>> | you do."
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>> http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/10/ps3_supercomputer
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> In the report, he replaced a 500 processor cluster with an 8 node PS3
> cluster and is seeing EQUAL performance! Running Linux ofcourse. That, my
> friend, is AWESOME!
Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmxPfZtV6w0&feature=related
(one of the few Linux commercials from them)
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