The true PS3 super-computer

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Profcrab said:

SpartanFX said:

crumas2 said:
The Cell wasn't designed for PS3, so the subject line is misleading. That's like saying a supercomputer was built from components designed for the previous generation of Macs because it used PowerPC processors.

Then again, there has been at least one super computer built from hundreds of rack-mount Macs, so let us know when the same is done with a giant array of PS3s.

it is done with 8 PS3s in a university ,,here is the PIC:

 

 

http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=220

 I've always said that IBM came out much better on the Cell deal than Sony did.  IBM got a great server processor out of it and Sony got a great server processor out of it . . . that can, in a far less effective role, run games.  One of these companies makes servers and the other one makes game systems.  When you compare relative cost benefit between two types of products, servers and game consoles, it's pretty funny that the PS3 is a much more cost effective server than a game system.  As a game system it is just competitive with the 360.  As a server it can, seemingly, be very effective.

I give this thread a 9.1. 

The cell works very well for video decoding/encoding as well. Something Sony are very much into. Like Toshiba and that cell powered tv.... mmmmmm Cell....