8 PS3s, a controller system, Yellowdog Linux, and a theoretical performance of greater than 1 TFlop. The PS3s are only a fraction of the price of this, but it's a turn-key solution... Most mainframe systems with this much power are at least an order of magnitude higher in price.

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/store/index.php?submit=software&submitimg[hardware][solutions]=1

[Edited on November 11, 2007 at 11:09 PM. Reason : .]

11/11/2007 11:08:38 PM

They also have much more impressive switch fabric linking their processor units.

11/11/2007 11:13:05 PM

Here's yet another idea for your PS3:

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/11/make-your-own-blu-ray-phaser/


Apparently people are tired of waiting for MGS4

11/11/2007 11:15:18 PM

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"Most mainframe systems with this much power are at least an order of magnitude higher in price."

and they have a fuckton more RAM which makes them much faster

11/11/2007 11:19:29 PM

And specialized ancillary processors, impressive fault tolerance, a wide arrange of support services...

I mean this is neat and all, but people have been doing beowulf ps2 clusters for a while now. They tend to be more cost effective than high end desktop clusters from some analyses, but the fact that they don't seem to catch on seems to suggest that their low cost might not make up for other problems.

[Edited on November 11, 2007 at 11:33 PM. Reason : ]

11/11/2007 11:32:34 PM

How are they still able to get PowerPC based Powermacs?

11/11/2007 11:53:49 PM

Ebay, university/state surplus sales, craigslist.

11/12/2007 12:36:48 AM

ha, i think the sillier thing is that there is a 32 unit system right under that 8 unit one youre talking about....if youre trying to buy a 42k computer rather than a lot of other shit.

11/12/2007 1:17:50 PM

I some how knew that this thread had something to do with a PS3 given the author of this thread.

11/12/2007 1:19:16 PM

^x7

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"Now we just have to wait for someone to create an HD-DVD phaser, and watch as millions of fanboys argue about which one is better."

11/12/2007 1:34:41 PM

haha thats pretty funny but i think they both use blue lasers

it would be funnier if they were like green and red then you could make starwars battles w/ them

11/12/2007 1:55:26 PM

haha, just like GI Joe, where all the bad guys always had red lasers.

11/12/2007 3:05:24 PM

You could set this up yourself for like 5 grand. Why pay another 10 grand so someone will do it for you?

11/13/2007 4:41:46 AM