In article <35261875.QcvBH8Gd6K@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with Eight PlayStation 3s
> >>
> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >> | The interest in the PS3 really was for two main reasons," explains
> >> | Khanna, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts,
> >> | Dartmouth who specializes in computational astrophysics. "One of those
> >> | is that Sony did this remarkable thing of making the PS3 an open
> >> | platform, so you can in fact run Linux on it and it doesn't control what
> >> | you do."
> >> `----
> >>
> >> http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/10/ps3_supercomputer
> >>
> >
> > In the report, he replaced a 500 processor cluster with an 8 node PS3
> > cluster and is seeing EQUAL performance! Running Linux ofcourse. That, my
> > friend, is AWESOME!
>
> Watch this:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmxPfZtV6w0&feature=related
>
> (one of the few Linux commercials from them)
That commercial is from IBM.
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--Tim Smith
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