My console can help cure more diseases than yours!

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FAH say a network of PS3’s will allow performance similar to supercomputers.

With 10,000 machines joined together the researchers calculate they should be able to do a thousand trillion calculations per second.

If that was achieved it would be nearly four times as fast as the world’s most powerful supercomputer, IBM’s BlueGene/L System, capable of 280.6 trillion calculations per second.

This is actually a pretty cool idea. I remember when SETI set up a similar thing a while back.

Article link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5287254.stm

And the link to the project website:

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If the guy who wrote this article had done his research, he’d know that protein folding experiments like this are most often wrong anyway.

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Or you could take the resources needed for 10k PS3s and use it to build an actual supercomputer.

Or a giant robot.

Possibly a Death Star.

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Cure for Cancer, dur. Oh sorry, Military applications are a better investment when it comes to getting bang for your buck.

Besides, why link CONSOLES at all when you could just … link … computers, MADE for computing?

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PS3s are probably more cost effective than most computers in terms of the number of operations they can perform per second.

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Which is why I’d shell out if there was a way to get Windows running on it, or at least a way to get a wireless keyboard/mouse combo onto it and get SOMETHING running.

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Mabie 600 dollars is a conservative price considering how one console can do more than 2 factory bought dells at a time.Or not.

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Interesting…didn’t they do this with like, 20k PSones & said that the terrorists could use them to launch nuclear weapons?

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I propose we ban the ps3s to preserve our freedom.