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Ok .. been reading all this business about the PS3's and the ATI GPU F@H power.
Stanford & Sony are boasting 100 Gflops per PS3. That is SERIOUS !!! power compared to the average 2 to 5 Gflops per average cluster node / workstation rig.
If stanford are "Correct" and "Accurate" .. one PS3 would be somewhere in realm of 20 to 50 times more powerfull than a high performance workstation / cluster node.
At a US cost ~ 450 dollars per PS3 .. that makes the PS3 a SERIOUS contendor for farm nodes, at least I think so.
Imagin Having your own Tflop cluster at home !!! I can remember back when Lawerence Livermore, IBM etc etc etc and all the other big guns were despritely trying to top 1000 Gflops, then came the puch for Tflops, now Pflops.
Check out - Top500.org
The number 500 supercomputer cluster is running an Rmax = 2036 Gflops. 2036/100 = 21 PS3's or a cost of 8000-9000 dollars !! Wonder how much they paid for their system.
In light of all the developments on PS3's < The IBM / Sony / Toshiba Cell Chip > and GPU cores, one has to seriously consider shifting to PS3's and GPU's v.s. making a capitol investment in Computer nodes.
What Do You All Think ???
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Stanford & Sony are boasting 100 Gflops per PS3. That is SERIOUS !!! power compared to the average 2 to 5 Gflops per average cluster node / workstation rig.
If stanford are "Correct" and "Accurate" .. one PS3 would be somewhere in realm of 20 to 50 times more powerfull than a high performance workstation / cluster node.
At a US cost ~ 450 dollars per PS3 .. that makes the PS3 a SERIOUS contendor for farm nodes, at least I think so.
Imagin Having your own Tflop cluster at home !!! I can remember back when Lawerence Livermore, IBM etc etc etc and all the other big guns were despritely trying to top 1000 Gflops, then came the puch for Tflops, now Pflops.
Check out - Top500.org
The number 500 supercomputer cluster is running an Rmax = 2036 Gflops. 2036/100 = 21 PS3's or a cost of 8000-9000 dollars !! Wonder how much they paid for their system.
In light of all the developments on PS3's < The IBM / Sony / Toshiba Cell Chip > and GPU cores, one has to seriously consider shifting to PS3's and GPU's v.s. making a capitol investment in Computer nodes.
What Do You All Think ???
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