Play Station 3 Cluster Guide
A group of researchers has posted a guide to turning a bunch of Sony PS3s into a supercomputing cluster. The researchers chose the PS3 it is a relatively inexpensive device with a powerful cell processor that “packs a punch.”
Other than the publicity it’s getting, there isn’t much thats new here. The PS3 has a been able to run “guest” operating systems such as Linux since it was released. Sony has even had some of its own employees working on improving it. And using Linux as an inexpensive clustering environment is certainly not new but it is still really cool to see something like this put together.
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