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Yeah but then people would buy them for non-gaming use. Remember the PS2 supercomputers?
by IshKebab 4mo ago
Yeah but then people would buy them for non-gaming use. Remember the PS2 supercomputers?
- Telaneo 4mo ago*PS3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster
- IshKebab 4mo agoFrom that very page... > The National Center for Supercomputing Applications had already built a cluster based on the PlayStation 2.
- Telaneo 4mo agoI haven't heard of any others, and your comment said 'supercomputers'. Not to mention that the NSCA was just throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if it would prove useful when it came to the PS2,[0] and their setup never worked reliably.[1] The PS3 had several supercomputers made independently.[1][2][3] [0] https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2003/05/27/playing-the-supercomputer-game/ https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2003/05/27/playing-the-superco... [1] https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/ps3-supercomputer.html https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/ps3-supercompu... [2] https://web.uri.edu/gravity/ps3/ https://web.uri.edu/gravity/ps3/ [3] https://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/701 https://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/701
- s3krit 4mo agoand the fears that Saddam Hussein was going to buy a bunch of PS2s because the cpu was SO POWERFUL they would be used for missile guidance systems or something