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8 PS3 and you have a super computer?

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:53 pm
by eXg. sabooya
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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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:11 pm
by eXg. Pheon1x
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
:evil:

Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:24 am
by uknonw
lol i can imagine that as the server standard... PS3U rack-mountable servers!