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)."

Comments

Re:Pretty much useless

[blind biker]

How is it useless, when the guy who built it, used it already for a month? And it has replaced 200 supercomputer nodes, for his purpose? I'd say that's very fucking useful.

But you know what, maybe you should send him an e-mail and try to convince him how his cluster is useless. Make it a nice, insightful and intelligent e-mail, like your post.