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This physicist has built a supercomputer from old PlayStations

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I honestly don't know how I want to feel about this

A home-made Play station 3 supercomputer is 3,000 times more powerfull than any desktop processor, and is being used to study black holes.

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Link : http://www.sciencealert.com/this-physicist-has-built-a-supercomputer-from-old-playstations

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But can it run Crysis?

Will it blend? 

ayy lmao

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How to feel about what? 

Cell processors are pretty good at this stuff and PS3s are pretty cheap and in plentiful supply to use for such things, shouldn't you feel happy that a wonky architecture is being used to advance a scientific cause? 

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Makes me wanna go out and get tons of old consoles from Craigslist.

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I remember some game had a server that was just a bunch of PS3's..

And I remember that I think Iraq wasn't allowed to get PS2's because they could make a computer out of those to guide a rocket..

 

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US air force did it 5 years ago : http://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomputer.html but still cool. 

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I love the PS3!

 

The Cell processor still has a use. 

 

"Last gen"

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I love the PS3!

The Cell processor still has a use.

"Last gen"

It has the best exclusives IMO.
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i hope to attempt a similar project with raspberry pi's when my website im creating brings in some revenue :D 

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US air force did it 5 years ago : http://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomputer.html but still cool. 

Yes, the airforce did it after finding out that this guy did it first. The air force also gave the guy more PS3s as thanks.

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Not the first time, WarHawk's servers were all ran off of a ton of PS3s. F@H was pre-installed on them at one point, but Sony was like, "As we're being dicks about taking down Linux support, will just remove F@H in the next update after that."

 

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Couldn't they also design an "@home" project and get help from around the world?  I'm sure there's hundreds of people, at the least, who would devote some computer power to black hole/gravitational wave research.  190 PS3's is certainly a good start, but even a mildly successful public distributed computing project would blow that out of the water.

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Wait, as powerful as 3,000 desktop computers? 3,000 Celeron or i7 5960X? If that few hundred PS3 can be as powerful as 3,000 i7 5960X, I surrender. 

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If you can write code that properly leverages the Cell processors in those things, they're actually really powerful.

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Cluster Comptuing. Woot Woot.

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This idea isn't anything new; but it's interesting that it would pop up again.

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This has been done lots of times in the past, both with PS2 and PS3. I remember my old teacher showing me pictures of massive supercomputers using this parts 4 years ago.

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I'm pretty sure I read about this years ago, why is this being posted now?

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