For PlayStation fans, here is an interesting article: Full article: Air Force To Expand PlayStation-Based Supercomputer -- Supercomputing -- InformationWeek Tom
Old news, been done quite a few times already: PS3 Science; supercomputing with a console. - Neoseeker News Article http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu/ps3.html We were using a PS3 cluster to do protein folding stuff. The single-precision is MUCH faster than the supercomputer-standard standard double-precision math.
Actually, the PS3 packs a lot of processing power into that little box, at a good price. Sure beats having to invest in an IBM or Cray
Yeah, that's why I bought a PS3 for my den instead of the Cray. I was going to go with the Cray, but Blu-ray playback was a problem. Tom
