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IshKebab a day ago

Yeah but then people would buy them for non-gaming use. Remember the PS2 supercomputers?

Telaneo a day ago | parent | next [-]

*PS3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster

IshKebab 18 hours ago | parent [-]

From that very page...

> The National Center for Supercomputing Applications had already built a cluster based on the PlayStation 2.

Telaneo 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I haven't heard of any others, and your comment said 'supercomputers'.

Not to mention that the NSCA was just throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if it would prove useful when it came to the PS2,[0] and their setup never worked reliably.[1] The PS3 had several supercomputers made independently.[1][2][3]

[0] https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2003/05/27/playing-the-superco...

[1] https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/ps3-supercompu...

[2] https://web.uri.edu/gravity/ps3/

[3] https://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/701

s3krit 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

and the fears that Saddam Hussein was going to buy a bunch of PS2s because the cpu was SO POWERFUL they would be used for missile guidance systems or something