At 12:03 PM 4/3/2007, matt jones wrote:
you say that, but don't PS2 and PS3 make ideal compute nodes for
some applications like rendering and 3D and 4D (time as the 4th) ?
a PS3 cluster is already out there somewhere...
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=15229&bypass=1
especially if you take cost into account, a retail PS3 has the
processing power (if you can access it) of a number of P4
processors or the like, and costs less!
PS2's were a bit slow to be honest, but with HDD's and networking,
along with Xboxes make good web servers for small scale. and use
less energy than a equivalent Piii or P4 system :-)
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