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Build an 8 PS3 Supercomputer

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 1, 2007

“Take 8 PS 3 consoles, Yellow Dog Linux, a Gigabit Ethernet
switch and your favorite protein folding or gravitational wave
modeling codes and you’re doing real science. On a Playstation!

“Most scientific computing is done on cluster computers. Blue
Gene/L, the world’s fastest supercomputer, uses 130,000 processors.
Plus a lot of money, power and cooling…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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