Submission + - Terra Soft to build a PS3 cluster
ze_jua writes: "10th of october 2006. Terra Soft Solutions ( http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/ ) announced they are building two clusters with 'old' Playstation3-beta as nodes. These machines were used by game developpers before the availability of the "real" console.
Few details were given, but we know that the datacenter can host about 1200 2U racks (the machine comes in a 2U server rack), and that the clusters will run Yellow Dog Linux (http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/) , the future distro from TerraSoft.
Here's the article linked from the TerraSoft website : http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/20980
From another article on the subject ( http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb101006-story01.html ) :
Still, even a 500-node PS3 cluster could deliver 100 teraflops of peak power and maybe 30 to 50 teraflops of performance. (It is very hard to say, since the Cell chip has not been tuned for Linpack or any other benchmark yet.) The amazing thing is that even if two-thirds of the performance of the PS3 cluster went up the chimney, at $599 for a top-end PS3, a 30 teraflops cluster for under $300,000"
Few details were given, but we know that the datacenter can host about 1200 2U racks (the machine comes in a 2U server rack), and that the clusters will run Yellow Dog Linux (http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/) , the future distro from TerraSoft.
Here's the article linked from the TerraSoft website : http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/20980
From another article on the subject ( http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb101006-story01.htm
Still, even a 500-node PS3 cluster could deliver 100 teraflops of peak power and maybe 30 to 50 teraflops of performance. (It is very hard to say, since the Cell chip has not been tuned for Linpack or any other benchmark yet.) The amazing thing is that even if two-thirds of the performance of the PS3 cluster went up the chimney, at $599 for a top-end PS3, a 30 teraflops cluster for under $300,000"
