What Are You Going To Do With Your FLOPS?
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| It is now possible to buy a system capable of 15 Giga Floating Point
| Operations Per Second (GFLOPS) for about $750. That works out to $50/GFLOPS.
| If you are doubting this number, price out a minimal Intel Core 2 Duo (E6550)
| system with 1GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive, DVD, and load Linux on it.
| Then run the HPL benchmark using the Goto libraries. You should see at least
| 15 GFLOPS for your investment, an astounding amount of power for so little
| cash.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/launchpad/business-class-hpc/main/4088
Analysts predict 80gb PS3 pricedrop
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| Sony dropped the price of the 60GB PlayStation 3 to $499 in the hope that it
| would get rid of what it had in its store room. The 60 GB machine has since
| been axed.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42162
Related:
PS3 Real-time Ray-tracing
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| IBM Interactive Ray-tracer (iRT) using three Sony Playstation3s (PS3)
| to render a model that is 75x more complex then those used in
| today's games.
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http://www.n4g.com/ps3/NewsCom-33982.aspx
The Greenest Game Console
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| Microsoft's Xbox 360, on the other hand, is a veritable power hog, sucking
| down 194 watts, rivaling Takahashi's 42-inch plasma TV.
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http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/2007/08/the-greenest-ga.html
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