* Jerry McBride fired off this tart reply:
> 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!
Now that's a coder!
No whining about how "you can't access the SPE's to do any meaningful
work". He just does it.
Here's another PS3 tale:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_microprocessor#PS3_helps_break_world_record
PS3 helps break world record
With the help of the computing power of over half a million
PlayStation 3 consoles, the distributed computing project,
Folding@Home, has now been recognized by the Guinness World Records
as the most powerful distributed network in the world. The first
record was achieved on September 16, 2007, as the project surpassed
one petaflops, which had never been reached before by a distributed
computing network. Additionally, the collective efforts enabled PS3
alone to reach the petaflop mark on September 23, 2007. In
comparison, the world's most powerful supercomputer IBM's BlueGene/L
performs around 280.6 teraflops which means Folding@Home's computing
power is approximately four times BlueGene/L's (although the CPU
interconnect in BlueGene/L is more than one million times
faster than the mean network speed in Folding@Home.)
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Tux rox!
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