How To Build a Homebrew PS3 Cluster Supercomputer

[w1z4rd]

"UMass Dartmouth Physics Professor Gaurav Khanna and UMass Dartmouth Principal Investigator Chris Poulin have created a step-by-step guide designed to show you how to build your own supercomputer for about $4,000. They are also hoping that by publishing this guide they will bring about a new kind of software development targeting this architecture & grid (I know a few failed NLP projects of my own that could use some new hardware). If this catches on for research institutions it may increase Sony's sales, but they might not be seeing the corresponding sale of games spike (where they make the most profit)

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/17/2251232

Oooh wicked cool. Ps3 ftw!

 

[eye_suc]

eish... i thought they make a loss on the ps3 hardware sale. bad news for Sony, but good for researchers hehehe

i wonder if you can still play games on that rig

 

[iDenTiTy]

Actually pretty simple to make a distributed supercompuer with the PS3.

Requires Linux to be installed, 2 or more PS3s, and a Gigabit switch.

Half way there !!!