On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:44:28PM -0500, Nathan Moore wrote: > This has been done - sort of. > (http://arrakis.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ps2/cluster.php) > One of the national labs built a cluster of ~70 Sony PlayStation > 2's a few years back and tried to do Molecular Dynamics on them - not > sure if it was viable successful, but Mercury seems to be trying the > same thing with the Cell chip. (http://www.mc.com/cell/) > > Not sure I'd want to program for 8 cores though...
MD should scream on the Cell. Given that PS3 will ship with GBit Ethernet (and Linux support, purportedly) it might become quite useful as a node for some problems. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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