8 PS3 and you have a super computer?

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8 PS3 and you have a super computer?

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Pretty cool article I found killing time in my hotel. Makes you think how cheap and small computers are becoming.
At about $4 per billion of floating point operations (GFlops) the PS3 is the cheapest supercomputer building block available today.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=220

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Wow thats insane!

i wish i had the money to be able to buy that many,
hell if i did id have a pc that wouldnt be holding me back like this1 is lol
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lol i can imagine that as the server standard... PS3U rack-mountable servers!
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