Posted on 03/05/2008 11:40:02 AM PST by ShadowAce
I honestly have no idea how the law/legalities work in a situation like this.
That's not an optimal solution for cross CPU communication. I imagine the application must run something akin to SETI@Home where discreet units of calculations are distributed across the available CPUs with the results being returned over the network. Presumably 16 PS3s isn't the maximum number that could be used for the project.
Depends on your price point, I suppose. He could have used IB and a $50,000 - $80,000 IB switch.
bkmark. thanks.
lol, that might be a tad ‘spendy’ for these lads.
It would be great as a secondary processor in place of the SIMD units (SSE, 3DNow) that's in modern chips, but it's not multi-purpose enough to be used as the main processor of a computer. Folding@Home only assigns PS3s those types of units it can handle.
Folding@Home has 32,577 PS3s doing work, many from the Free Republic team that currently ranks #50 out of 3,000 teams.
Somehow I don’t think the question is if they’re banned from export to those countries, but rather if the countries in question allow them to be imported... could you imagine a ‘good’ Muslim’s reaction to female video game characters?
Honestly, I wouldn’t really worry - if whoever wanted to simulate a nuclear explosion, sure they could wire a bunch of PS3’s together, but they could just buy computer parts off the internet and assemble them by hand, or wire a bunch of ‘normal’ computers together, the only real difference being the cost, and something tells me that if you have the money to build nuclear weapons, you have the money not to need to be cheap about how you get your computing power.
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