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How To Build a Homebrew PS3 Cluster Supercomputer
eldavojohn writes "UMass Dartmouth Physics Professor Gaurav Khanna and UMass Dartmouth Principal Investigator Chris Poulin have created a step-by-step guide designed to show you how to build your own supercomputer for about $4,000. They are also hoping that by publishing this guide they will bring about a new kind of software development targeting this architecture & grid (I know a few failed NLP projects of my own that could use some new hardware). If this catches on for research institutions it may increase Sony's sales, but they might not be seeing the corresponding sale of games spike (where they make the most profit)."
something to finally run Vista?
This isn't really the place to start criticizing grammar and spelling, unless you REALLY want to live a life full of frustration and torment....?
(Though it could be worse, I suppose - you could go to digg etc. intsead...:p)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
At first I laughed... But then I realized that, no, Vista won't be able to run on this.
Vista doesn't support the PowerPC architecture.
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It's not my fault you didn't catch the Invader Zim reference.
Invader Zim is non-free. It's easier to catch pop culture references if they are pre-1923 or otherwise free.
sorry, but that's stupid -how many pop culture references from 1923 are relevant to TODAY's pop culture:
seeya snookums, me and the squeeze are the bees knees in our raccoon coats, we're gonna get jazzed up in our hupmobile on hootch and go check out Mary Astor's horse after we hit the blind pig.
I agree its unfortunate that this stuff is non free, but pre 1923 means that most talkies would be out of bounds as well -including stuff you can see on tv all the time.
I'm just sayin'
If this catches on for research institutions it may increase Sony's sales, but they might not be seeing the corresponding sale of games spike
Come on - that's the whole point. This is what you'll need to run the PS3 version of Crysis!
or bank reclaimed assets from a sunken business?
What type of processor do Woolworth's POS tills use?