From PlayStation to supercomputer (News.com)

[Posted May 27, 2003 by ris]

News.com looks at a new supercompter made from Sony PlayStation game consoles. "Perhaps the most striking aspect of the project, which uses the open-source Linux operating system, is that the only hardware engineering involved was placing 70 of the individual game machines in a rack and plugging them together with a high-speed Hewlett-Packard network switch. The center's scientists bought 100 machines but are holding 30 in reserve, possibly for high-resolution display application."

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Posted May 28, 2003 8:21 UTC (Wed) by bertox (guest, #11146) [Link]

Would you guys please stop hacking on that Linux stuff? You're driving me crazy!