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Playstation Supercomputer: news.com

Tue, 05/27/2003 - 13:22 — charlie.collins

We all know that the Playstation 2 is a popular gaming platform, but did you also know its a great supercomputer platform?

Well, 70 of them clustered, running Linux and connected to the same switch are a supercomputer! The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has assembled such an array of Playstations and they believe "the system may be capable of a half trillion operations a second, well within the definition of supercomputer".

Pretty amazing, I wonder how they get any damn research done with a LAN party lab like that? Anyway, the linked news.com story has the very cool details.   From PlayStation to supercomputer: news.com

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