q265 tells us in VidaExtra that Frank Mueller, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, has created a “mini-supercomputer” by connecting 8 PS3s that, thanks to the characteristics of the Cell processor, resulted in a 64-core computer, which, taking into account that the current ones are dual-core, It’s stupid.
A computer with these characteristics would have incalculable values in the market, but in this way, the price would be about €3,648, although it should be taken into account that the 256MB of RAM would make it a not very usable machine. However, if someone were able to “do a trick” and increase this memory, tremendously powerful computers could be built at a considerably low price. Who said the 360 was more like a computer?
This computer would not be among the 500 most powerful in the world, since it is very difficult to unseat BlueGene/L with its 130,000 cores, although according to Mueller, it could be unseated by uniting 10,000 PS3s in a single cluster. The computer is intended to be used for academic reasons, and its author does not rule out adding more RAM in the not too distant future, since, according to him, he has not yet explored all the possibilities of the machine.
I think this shows that, regardless of who it may be, the PS3 technology (Especially when it comes to the GPU) is overwhelming (Although I don’t know what would happen if the same thing were done with an Xbox 360).
| Source | NeoTeo |
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