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- ojk007, on 02/17/2008, -6/+62This isnt 'games consoles' its basically just the CELL chip.
- inactive, on 02/17/2008, -36/+77Correction: Replace "games consoles" with PS3. Seeing as it's the only one that lets them do that.
That and it's game, not games. - robwolf100, on 02/17/2008, -13/+46"Doctors use Nintendo Wii in therapy treatment"
"The Wii, made by Nintendo, has a motion tracking remote control unit that is cheaper than a comparable device built from scratch. The device recently emerged as a tool to help surgeons to improve their technique."
What is "that" you speak of? the article covers multiple counsels doing different things. Read it before you talk trash. - pathy, on 02/17/2008, -6/+38Using a Wii to help surgeons? Dear god I hope not...
- D3koy, on 02/17/2008, -3/+24Is that image even on the page? and what does it have to do with the story?
Will kids be using video game consoles to learn about the effects of drugs? - jaygray, on 02/17/2008, -3/+24Why not? I beat Trauma Center! Surgery's not that hard.
- silence7, on 02/17/2008, -2/+22Has nothing to do with the machines being game consoles, has everything to do with Distributed Computing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Computing - Murdats, on 02/17/2008, -2/+21how about RTFA before commenting on it, why bother commenting on just the description
- BigBallistix, on 02/17/2008, -10/+27"it runs on Linux, so it does not limit what you can do."
I loled at that. MS is so counter-productive in their marketing schemes Grrr. - bedouin, on 02/17/2008, -0/+13While that's true, the consoles are sold at a lower price under the assumption that consumers will also purchase games. For someone who only wants to do distributed computing, that equals value.
- Icupnimpn2, on 02/17/2008, -1/+10Is it a Game Boy with a flashlight on it, or is it a flashlight with a Game Boy on it? Science has no answer.
- loquax, on 02/17/2008, -2/+11You've got to love it when people hack technology to do things not originally intended by the manufacturer. I've got an old XBox I've been thinking about turning into part of a 3d rendering farm at home (if I can find it under the piles of junk from the other 300 or so hack projects I've never finished ;))
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -1/+10Windows is very obviously a consumer grade and commercial operating system. Microsoft do, however have a version which is specifically suited for super-computing (Windows HPC Server 2008). The original Xbox was loosely based on the Windows 2000 kernel I believe, and the Xbox 360 supposedly is related to Windows 2000 in an even looser manner. It's probably a better idea to consider the Xbox 360 OS, just that, the Xbox 360 OS. After all, the Xbox 360 uses Power-PC architecture, and Windows has not supported Power-PC for a very long time.
- dazparkour, on 02/17/2008, -2/+11Is my sarcasm detector finally broken? I may never know.
- sekhui, on 02/17/2008, -2/+10"games console" is hideous grammar, perhaps?
- inactive, on 02/17/2008, -1/+9The PS3 is used for its processing power and the Wii is used for its control scheme. Not mentioned: 360.
- Charlotte_Web, on 02/17/2008, -1/+8That's all well and good, but is the reverse true?
When will I be able to play Metal Gear Solid 4 on my Cray XT5? (And where do I plug in my controller?) - Myztry, on 02/17/2008, -4/+11In fields like science and medicine, Red Rings of Death are bad... Very bad...
But on a serious note, the Cell Processor is an amazing number cruncher with the major benefit of supporting Linux on it's major platform (PS3). In case no one has noticed, Windows doesn't make the grade in the supercomputing environment, and that's what underlies the Xbox platform. - cygnus2112, on 02/17/2008, -3/+10The console war isn't over in the least bit. With the movie industry, retailers and Toshiba ultimately dumping HD DVD in favor of Blu-Ray, paired with the new chip Sony designed to make smaller PS3 units and also paired with Microsoft not solving the RROD and adding in that Wii's are ultimately slated for temporary toys.. PS3 is still a contender - many people are waiting for another price drop.
- vroom101, on 02/17/2008, -1/+7Link fix...
http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu/ps3.html - smek2, on 02/17/2008, -6/+12"Overall, a single PS3 performs better than the highest-end desktops available and compares to as many as 25 nodes of an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer." (from Playstation3 Gravity Grid, http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu/ps3.html)
- BriscoeJr, on 02/17/2008, -2/+8Like your Game Boy you glued a flashlight to? (the flashlight hack)
- Matteos, on 02/17/2008, -1/+7Super Mario Appendectomy.
- Myztry, on 02/17/2008, -1/+6Oh, I see. There is/was one Supercomputer computer running Windows in the Top 500
http://www.forbes.com/2005/03/15/cz_dl_0315linux.h ...
Okay, the article is a few years old. But really it's just Microsoft fantasy.
My computer must be an extremely powerful Super Computer as it's running Linux.
Funny thing is I'm just a consumer grade user and it's 'less than' a commercial operating system. - machine117, on 02/17/2008, -2/+6Yes, but only for very specialized tasks in most cases, and not general calculation:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-PS3#ntoc15 - inactive, on 02/17/2008, -0/+4I use drugs to enhance the effects of video game consoles.
- oldman, on 02/17/2008, -5/+9The article is from England, and we all know their English is wrong:-)
- Myahon, on 02/17/2008, -5/+9PS3, unable to play cool exclusive games or produce 360 level graphics it's best used for science and blu ray playing.
It actually sucks so hard scientists are using it to simulate black holes. - machine117, on 02/17/2008, -2/+5Please read this, it shows why the PS3 isn't the end-all for supercomputing:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-PS3#ntoc15 - BruceBogtrotter, on 02/18/2008, -0/+3Fanboy? Troll? I see nothing wrong with stating unbiased facts.
- matt.rubin, on 02/18/2008, -0/+3This reminds me about those rumors before about Saadam using PS2 processors for Nuclear Weapons
- dr3minem, on 02/17/2008, -1/+4Did you look up that link just for this post?
- Sirlolalot, on 02/17/2008, -2/+5hmm i dunno i like the image, you never know when youll need a Telegraph Family activity planner, i dont want to get stuck for something to do with the kids...
- zapass, on 02/17/2008, -5/+7man, this is not hardcore: a gaming console must only play games otherwise it is a gaystation.
we xbaboons are against the use of gaming devices for anything else than true-real-zealous-nextgen-fundamental gaming like halo3.
scientific numbers, just like movie numbers are not real gaming numbers and therefore they are gay and not worthy of our 3 almighty xbox CPUs.
we xbaboons can't stand the fact that people in the world are using non microsoft technology and think outside the xbox.
we jumped in and thou shall jump in, resistance is futile. - inactive, on 02/17/2008, -1/+3It said a -single- PS3. There's no Netgear switch inside the PS3. Infiniband is 2.5GB/s. If it could be hacked in, the PS3 could use HDMI for 10GB/s output, and 2.5GB/s input by combining the gigabit ethernet and SATA port. The bigger limitation with the PS3 is local memory.
- stalefries, on 02/17/2008, -2/+4How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? The world may never know.
- Myahon, on 02/17/2008, -2/+4But a supercomputer might play videogames, unlike the PS3 ....
- inactive, on 02/17/2008, -0/+2It's called marketing.
- coyote1284, on 02/19/2008, -0/+2Your mom's Anonymous!
- Topher06, on 02/19/2008, -0/+2If you own a PS3 and don't know what to do with it, it speaks more about how lame you are then anything else.
- Topher06, on 02/19/2008, -0/+2Again, another Xboy latching on to 2006 insults for the PS3. Hey, when you have a new thought, let us all know.
- BruceBogtrotter, on 02/17/2008, -4/+6"Reprogram a PlayStation and it will perform feats that would be unthinkable on an ordinary PC because the kinds of calculations required to produce the realistic graphics now seen in sophisticated video games..." Graphics wise the PS3 isn't very impressive by PC standards. By "ordinary" PC I suppose he is talking about cheap PCs with ***** on-board graphics chips. The cell processor, however, is very impressive when used properly, but isn't that great for things like operating systems that aren't designed specifically for it. This is mainly due to it being an in-order processor and the fact that most operating systems don't take advantage of all SPEs. Meaning it takes all instructions in-order where as most PC CPUs are out-of-order. Out-of-order cup's are better for general things(things not optimized specifically for the processor).
- Fiestardi, on 02/17/2008, -1/+2Shut up bitch
- retzed, on 02/17/2008, -5/+6Because they're geeks. No offense.
- zapass, on 02/17/2008, -2/+3please, do read: it shows exactly how people let jealousy and repressed fanboysm cloud their judgement.
grid computing is about the grid, not the individual nodes.
by looking at the OS statistics, anyone with more than 3 brain cells will realize that:
- even though GPUs are more powerful individually, they're currently not flexible enough to handle a whole bunch of tasks
- just a few 10000s Ps3 managed to break the petaflop barrier and dwarf anything else (including the few GPU dudes)
- a gazillions people are buying Ps3s for gaming and media centers so these numbers are gonna get a 100x within a couple years - lkms, on 02/17/2008, -2/+3this also means that those scientists are robbing off sony, which is a useful thing too.
- coyote1284, on 02/19/2008, -0/+1Brit's way of saying multiple consoles capable of playing multiple games.
- bosssmiley, on 02/17/2008, -3/+4"games console" - a console upon which one plays games. It's perfectly fine, maybe a bit too high-faluting for the tobacco-chawing colonials maybe. ;-)
- coyote1284, on 02/19/2008, -0/+1N2O on PS1 made for a nice trip
- coyote1284, on 02/19/2008, -0/+1Ha-ha, silly Brits and their funny pluralization of words... like "maths"!
(Ha-ha, silly Yanks and their funny way of sticking a zed where it should be an ess... like "pluralization"!) -
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