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I worked as a undergrad assistant in a research lab in 2011-ish, and the lab had a shelf full of PS3s working as a cluster. Regretfully my project didn't get to
by cbdumas 3mo ago
I worked as a undergrad assistant in a research lab in 2011-ish, and the lab had a shelf full of PS3s working as a cluster. Regretfully my project didn't get to use it.
- dgellow 3mo agoWasn’t that a cluster based on Sony’s official OtherOS feature? Multiple universities had such clusters
- deleted 3mo ago[deleted]
- dfxm12 3mo agoThe feature was removed by firmware update in 2010.
- dgellow 3mo agoI know but updating your system is a choice, it was perfectly fine to keep your clusters at an older firmware version. I know for a fact that a university in my home town managed such a ps3 clusters after 2010
- ryan_n 3mo agoOkay so circa 2011 it was powering some labs. Don't think there are many/any frontier labs in 2026 running ps3's, or at least no one has provided any evidence of that still..
- latchkey 3mo agoMuch later, I got to deploy 20,000 PS5 chips to mine ethereum. When PoS happened, we shut it all down. Now those boards (BC-250) are being sold on ebay for $200 and people are running AI on them.