Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Supercomputing with a stack of PlayStations
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Khanna's system runs Yellow Dog Linux, chosen because there is a PS3-centric
>| version.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| "There are several options for the flavour of PowerPC Linux that one can
>| chose to run on a PS3," he said.
> `----
>
> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10473693
>
> The trolls say that Linux on the PS3 is slow. Well, not for researchers,
> apparently.
Compared with what, one wonders!
>
>
> Recent:
>
> Folding@home sets Guinness record thanks to PS3
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| In six months, the addition of around two-thirds of a million PS3s to the
>| network lifted the processing power to one petaflop, and one week later on
>| September 23, participating PS3s alone were delivering a petaflop.
> `----
>
> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15136/1054/
>
>
Power to the, err, user?
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