Supercomputing with a stack of PlayStations
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| Khanna's system runs Yellow Dog Linux, chosen because there is a PS3-centric
| version.
|
| [...]
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| "There are several options for the flavour of PowerPC Linux that one can
| chose to run on a PS3," he said.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10473693
The trolls say that Linux on the PS3 is slow. Well, not for researchers,
apparently.
Recent:
Folding@home sets Guinness record thanks to PS3
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| In six months, the addition of around two-thirds of a million PS3s to the
| network lifted the processing power to one petaflop, and one week later on
| September 23, participating PS3s alone were delivering a petaflop.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15136/1054/
Related:
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
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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