PLAYSTATION 3 Cluster

[I am Penguin]

Not just a game box!
The Sony Computer Entertainment PLAYSTATION®3 with Yellow Dog Linux is the most exciting computer to hit the market in years. Fixstars offers the PS3™ with Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux pre-installed as a low cost, home and office personal computer and Cell Broadband Engine development workstation --even a supercomputing cluster node.
As the Cell processor inside the PS3 is built from the same foundation as that found in the Sony ZEGO BCU-100, the IBM QS22 (used in Los Alamos Roadrunner cluster) and the GigaAccel 180, the PS3 makes for an ideal Cell/B.E. development workstation and test-bed for Cell/B.E. optimized code --all available from Fixstars.

PS3 Cluster
A light weight but powerful cluster, ideal for the development of parallel, Cell/B.E. optimized code. Seamless code migration to IBM BladeCenter enables a smart, powerful upgrade path.

Well the Slim is a "No Go" so seems to me a few Phatty's need to be bought on the cheap soon!

 

[Lemon369]

If most of the revenue is generated from game sales, makes sense to remove it, heard of 100's and 100's bought for other purposes, including labs for weather and science processing...