PS4 cpu for increased computing power

[Daniel Lopez]

Hello you guys,

 

I had a quick question, couple years ago I bought a ps4 which is currently sitting in my room, probably has not been touched in over 6 months. I work on a lot of simulations that lend themselves for parallel processing since the tasks to be carried out are not particularly intense, just have to do A LOT of them. I have seen a huge decrease in the time I spend running a simulation by accessing the other cores of my laptop (which has a quadcore processor). I have read that a ps4 has an 8 core cpu and was wondering, is there any way I can hook up my laptop in some way to tap in to the ps4´s cpu and use its processor to speed up my simulations? I would not mind if I can no longer use the ps4 for games and stuff.

 

Thank you!!

[Dang3r D3bbi3]

Hey man Im no Rocket Scientist but it seems to me that EVEN IF there was some way you could do that, the type of connections on the PS4 would be over saturated. What I mean is that the ports on it might not be able to handle that kind of thing. But dont give up hope man.

[werto165]

I remember supercomputers used to run a load of PS3's in parellel, because of it's cell architecture it was worth it but I don't think it's even possible to do with the ps4 pretty sure it ran some version of linux on the ps3s. I could be wrong but it's x86 so realistically it's not very fast compared with modern CPU and GPU hardware. 

[Enderman]

No, it's impossible.

 

It's soldered to the motherboard, it is not compatible with PC architectures, it does not have a direct link IO, and like a bajillion other reasons.

[Daniel Lopez]

gg, dreams are dead

[NTDaws]

11 minutes ago, Enderman said:

No, it's impossible.

 

It's soldered to the motherboard, it is not compatible with PC architectures, it does not have a direct link IO, and like a bajillion other reasons.

THATS NOT TRUE, have you watched this lol? skip to 0:54

 

 

[Daniel Lopez]

4 minutes ago, Dawson Wehage said:

THATS NOT TRUE, have you watched this lol? skip to 0:54

 

 

oh great chappie if you are reading this can you please do a tutorial on how to do this? thx

[Enderman]

6 minutes ago, Dawson Wehage said:

THATS NOT TRUE, have you watched this lol? skip to 0:54

 

 

Can't watch video, what is it...

[kirashi]

21 minutes ago, Daniel Lopez said:

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is there any way I can hook up my laptop in some way to tap in to the ps4´s cpu and use its processor to speed up my simulations?

Yup, there sure is. You'll just need to get your hands on the same tools and equipment that fail0verflow used to hack away at the PS4 in the video below. Oh yeah, you'll also need to know how to reverse engineer bytecode. Then write your own API to interface with the CPU in the PS4. Sounds so easy, I expect a working prototype next week. /s

 

[NTDaws]

1 minute ago, Daniel Lopez said:

oh great chappie if you are reading this can you please do a tutorial on how to do this? thx

Call the producers. +2 9909706513

[NTDaws]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Can't watch video, what is it...

The video is showing 10 PS4's using their processing power on another pc to transfer human conscious to a file.

[PlayStation 2]

20 minutes ago, werto165 said:

I remember supercomputers used to run a load of PS3's in parellel, because of it's cell architecture it was worth it but I don't think it's even possible to do with the ps4 pretty sure it ran some version of linux on the ps3s. I could be wrong but it's x86 so realistically it's not very fast compared with modern CPU and GPU hardware. 

PS4 runs an OS that's based off of BSD iirc (in fact, I think it's built off of FreeBSD).

[Daniel Lopez]

2 minutes ago, Dawson Wehage said:

Call the producers. +2 9909706513

on it already, on hold waiting for mr. chappie himself

3 minutes ago, kirashi said:

Yup, there sure is. You'll just need to get your hands on the same tools and equipment that fail0verflow used to hack away at the PS4 in the video below. Oh yeah, you'll also need to know how to reverse engineer bytecode. Then write your own API to interface with the CPU in the PS4. Sounds so easy, I expect a working prototype next week. /s

 

i gotchu, tutorial should be up by the end of the week.

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, Dawson Wehage said:

The video is showing 10 PS4's using their processing power on another pc to transfer human conscious to a file.

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[The Sloth]

why may i ask, if you want to experiment for cheap get a pi. the ps3 was used for a supercomputer by the military because it was very advance for its time. the ps4 is underpower for its time most apu paired with a 750 ti can beat a ps4 at almost everything.  https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomputer.html

[Daniel Lopez]

2 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

why may i ask, if you want to experiment for cheap get a pi. the ps3 was used for a supercomputer by the military because it was very advance for its time. the ps4 is underpower for its time most apu paired with a 750 ti can beat a ps4 at almost everything.  https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomputer.html

mainly because i had it around at home not being used so thought merp, why not lol

[NTDaws]

In realism, you're better off getting 3 Custom Servers running Xeons. And using their processing power.

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, Daniel Lopez said:

mainly because i had it around at home not being used so thought merp, why not lol

media center? or get a vita so you can use remote play 

[NTDaws]

Or buy a puget systems PC containing 4 CPUs in one system.

[Daniel Lopez]

3 minutes ago, Dawson Wehage said:

In realism, you're better off getting 3 Custom Servers running Xeons. And using their processing power.

seems like a solid option, reading in to it

[NTDaws]

1 minute ago, Daniel Lopez said:

seems like a solid option, reading in to it

You can also look at used dell poweredge or precision servers/workstations. They are cheap on eBay. Run Linux on those puppies and that could work too.