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[News] Another University Wants to Use PlayStation 3 Clusters

PS3 power requested for research project

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| Sony announced on Thursday that owners of any Internet-connected PS3
| will be able to participate in a wide-ranging, distributed,
| scientific experiment led by Stanford University's Folding@home
| program, which is seeking to better understand a process called
| protein folding and its relationship to several serious diseases.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9596_22-6167491.html


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NC State Engineer Creates First Academic Playstation 3 Computing Cluster

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| The PS3 allows the Linux operating system to be installed, and IBM
| designed the programming environment for programming the Cell
| processor (including eight vectorization units), which combined
| tremendous computing power within a single PS3.
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http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/2007/march/041.html

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