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K9
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That's pretty cool actually. As I understand the PS3 GPUs are incredibly efficient for numerical stuff.
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Lantyssa
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Yeah. There are groups which have taken them and turned them into Beowulf clusters for intense computational tasks.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Righ
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Teaching the world Google-fu one broken dream at a time.
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I bet you could get a good number of people to contribute their unused processing power to the federal intelligence services in the way that they do for SETI and protein folding. An Uncle Sam distributed processing project. As it stands, the most powerful computing arrays in the world are being used to send spam.
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Salamok
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I bet you could get a good number of people to contribute their unused processing power to the federal intelligence services in the way that they do for SETI and protein folding. An Uncle Sam distributed processing project. As it stands, the most powerful computing arrays in the world are being used to send spam.
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Fordel
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Yeah. There are groups which have taken them and turned them into Beowulf clusters for intense computational tasks.
I have no idea what that actually means, but it sounds AWESOME.  |
and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Lantyssa
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It's taking a bunch of cheap computers (or PS3s as the case may be) and turning them into a cluster which behaves similarly to a huge multi-processor computer. It allows for large parallel computing tasks with a homebuilt system. Wiki link for a longer overview. |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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MahrinSkel
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Essentially it creates a virtual computer where the backplane bus is the network and each computer is a CPU. For certain kinds of tasks it makes a really cheap supercomputer (especially now that we've got gigabit+ networking).
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Chimpy
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IBM has been using Cell processors in supercomputers for a couple years. In fact, the (number 2 as of this week) fastest supercomputer ever built a year ago was partially powered by them. Apparently they scale very well in massively parallel applications.
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Selby
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I have no idea what that actually means, but it sounds AWESOME. I built one in college using cheap throw-away computers I rescued from the scrap pile. Throw Unix on them, network them together, and you've got some interesting processing power if you know how to utilize it. |
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Trippy
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The PS2 was used in a super computer cluster back in 2003 so using video game console systems in such applications is not new to the PS3, though obviously it is a lot more powerful than the PS2 was.
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fuser
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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