The Volunteer Supercomputing Revolution in Scientific Research
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| One initiative has wooed gamers who use the Sony PlayStation 3 console, which
| contains a speedy graphics processor. A Stanford University protein study
| called "Folding@home" now gets the majority of its processing work from the
| consoles.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60929.html
Recent:
Sony says global sales of PS3 to top 11 million
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| The PlayStation3 "is starting afresh as a console to play games with.
| Although pricing strategy is important, now we would like to put our strength
| in the number of software games," he said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071215/bs_afp/japangamecompanysony
Related:
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
Linux in more than 90% of top supercomputers
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| Other operating systems, such as AIX (4.8%), Solaris (0.4%) and Mac OS X
| (0.4%) make the list, but Linux is alone at the top, where it is used in 459
| systems or 91.8% of the top supercomputer systems.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/15/linux-in-more-than-90-of-top-supercomputers/
http://tinyurl.com/2rponk
PS3 + Linux + Firefox = Office 2.0 computing
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| Sony and a technology site are using a conference to show off a confluence of
| next-generation, monopoly-bypassing technology: a Sony Playstation 3
| videogame console running Linux and Firefox as a foundation for
| Web-based "Office 2.0" applications.
|
| IT|Redux, a site run by blogger and tech adviser Ismael Ghalimi, is showing
| off the system at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. IT|Redux is the
| show organizer.
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http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9772115-1.html
PS3 available pre-installed with Linux
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| TerraSoft is now taking direct pre-orders with no delivery
| time guarantees for a Sony PS3 pre-installed with Linux,
| priced at $650.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7863481537.html
Old:
Best New Console - Sony PlayStation 3
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| Sony's embrace of the PS3 as a computer rather than just a console
| and the availability of supported Linux distributions for the
| console will also develop and will likely bear entirely unexpected
| fruit in future.
|
| Runner-Up:
| Nintendo Wii
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http://bestof.ign.com/2006/gear/1.html
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