from playstation to supercomputer


A group at the NCSA has built a supercomputer using PlayStation 2s and Linux's clustering technology for 50,000. Cool.

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Posted by diego on May 26 2003 at 11:08 PM
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Do you know one of the most amusing things about this? It kind of proves that Sinclair had the right idea long ago - its just that he got the scale wrong...

They attempting to do this at a wafer level - lots (and lots) of processors on a single wafer, disable the ones that don't work, the rest make something that is both fast and cheap.

Posted by: murph at May 27, 2003 10:06 AM

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