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PS3 and Processing Power within!
LockedIt seems that gaming consoles’ makers are racing to pack more CPU power just to serve of the demanding graphics and the near-realistic feel and look of simulated reality-games. I’ve always wondered about the possibility to recycle this CPU power by applying some of the basic parallel computing concepts.
Such argument made me think about the new PS3 architecture as to be the best plat form for parallel computing hardware reusability. With prices like this I would be glad to have grid of PS3 boxes in my home-office rather than my garage, the cooling system is great, power consumption is even better, and interconnectivity is flawless.
Although it is out of the blue assumption, I am interested in exploring the potential of having a farm of PS3 serving as economical alternative for mid-sized Data Center!
To enhance this assumption:
1. PS3 x 8 basic 60GB Boxes
2. Open Source Parallel OS
3. Any kind of application suitable for bench marking resultsOn the side, what are the possibilities that we actually could covered a graphics engine to act as a General Purpose CPU? (interested sub-topic though!)
Best regards