I think building a PS2 cluster for scientific computations made sense at the time this was proposed, around 2002 AFAIK, but 5 years later I'm not so sure that e.g. BOINC projects would bother to include the PS2 as a target platform. The user base is declining and most of the units do not feature both a hard disk AND a network adapter, IIRC.
Here is something I found on Theregister.co.uk: PS3 Gravity Grid
Tullio
Perhaps sometime soon we will be purchasing P3's to work on select BOINC-related projects which are adapted to perform well on this platform (which I guess Sony would be very happy to accommodate! ;)
Ciao Tullio, I mean the
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Ciao Tullio,
I mean the PS2 since there is an idle one nearby but I am writing to the North Pole about a sack of PS3s.
A search for PS2+scientific found lots including clusters
http://arrakis.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ps2/index.php
http://www.netbsd.org/ports/playstation2/
But archive.org is offline so I can't get an old copy of http://playstation2-linux.com/ yet.
The odd thing is that a second hand PS2 seem to be only 40% less than a new PS3!
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Hi! I think building a PS2
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Hi!
I think building a PS2 cluster for scientific computations made sense at the time this was proposed, around 2002 AFAIK, but 5 years later I'm not so sure that e.g. BOINC projects would bother to include the PS2 as a target platform. The user base is declining and most of the units do not feature both a hard disk AND a network adapter, IIRC.
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Bikeman
Here is something I found on
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Here is something I found on Theregister.co.uk:
PS3 Gravity Grid
Tullio
RE: Here is something I
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Perhaps sometime soon we will be purchasing P3's to work on select BOINC-related projects which are adapted to perform well on this platform (which I guess Sony would be very happy to accommodate! ;)