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It's the fault of their own business model which cuts cost on consoles (they have to compete against the other ones) only jack the price up later on games and m
by readme 10y ago
It's the fault of their own business model which cuts cost on consoles (they have to compete against the other ones) only jack the price up later on games and make money there.
On the bright side, the Air Force made a really nice PS3 cluster.
http://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomputer.html http://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercompute...
- pizza 10y agoInteresting! I found a paper by the lead / architect: Integration and Development of the 500 TFLOPS Heterogeneous Cluster (Condor) [0] Another release article that includes more information: http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-the-dods-playstation-powered-condor-cluster-means-for-the-future-of-supercomputing/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-the-dods-playstation-power... [0] http://ieee-hpec.org/2012/index_htm_files/Barnell.pdf http://ieee-hpec.org/2012/index_htm_files/Barnell.pdf
- michaelmrose 10y agoIt's reasonable to suppose that the ps3 was an edge case. Current gen consoles didn't cost more per unit to manufacture than they sell for nor if we continue to see x86 machines will the next generations