News: ecco a cosa puo' servire linux sulla ps3

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Ho visto molti post ultimamente, che suonano piu' o meno cosi: "A cosa serve linux sulla ps3?".

Terrasoft potrebbe rispondere: "A costruire il supercomputer con il rapporto prezzo/prestazioni piu' conveniente al mondo".

Questi signori infatti hanno a listino un cluster di calcolo formato da 6 ps3 che promette prestazioni maggiori di 1 TFlops. Alla modesta cifra di 18000$

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/store/index.php?submit=software&submitimg[hardware][solutions]=1

6 Node PS3 Cluster
A light weight but powerful cluster, ideal for the development of parallel, Cell optimized code. Seamless code migration to a Mercury Cell blade, 1U, or CAB product offers a smart, powerful upgrade path. This cluster offers a theoretical performance of greater than 1 TFlop

# IBM p5 185 head node: dual-core 2.5GHz 970, 2GB RAM, dual 74GB drives.
# 6 60GB PLAYSTATION®3s.
# HP Procurve 24 port gigabit ethernet switch.
# Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed.
# Y-HPC Cluster Construction suite pre-installed.
# 7 Cat6 ethernet cables.
# Mouse, Keyboard, Benq 19" Display.
# RapidMind Cell Development Toolkit, pre-installed.
# 20 Hours of technical support.
# Mercury MCF optimized Cell libraries --optional.
# HPC Racks, rack shelves, and power distribution --optional.
# UPS --optional
# storage system --optional