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A PS3 is probably the best bang per buck computing power you can buy for tasks that can be parallelized. Quite a few scientists use a small cluster of PS3 for
by marcus 19y ago
A PS3 is probably the best bang per buck computing power you can buy for tasks that can be parallelized.
Quite a few scientists use a small cluster of PS3 for their data crunching.
- TheTarquin 19y agoActually one of the guys I went to school with (https://publications.dev.java.net/seanfitzgerald/ https://publications.dev.java.net/seanfitzgerald/) mentioned something like that to me when details of the PS3 first started getting announced. He was doing Beowulf clustering stuff and mentioned that he wouldn't mind getting his hands on a few PS3s.
- marcus 19y agoOf course... checkout Folding@Home stats http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats To make the comparison more relevant I look at the difference between Intel based Macs(because they are all relatively new computers) and PS3s