Archive for December 18th, 2008





Want your own supercomputer – just grab some PS3s!

Dec 18th, 2008 | By

Last year, scientists such as Physics professor Gaurav Khanna of UMass Dartmouth and Frank Mueller, a computer science professor at NC State, made news in tech and scientific circles by creating supercomputing clusters from Sony Playstation 3s. Their clusters have the same computing power as a small supercomputer, but the cost is only around $5000, [...]