[geeks] Game GPU clusters for supercomputering

[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 22, 2008, at 15:37 , Sandwich Maker wrote:


> i read a news item not too long ago, about how sony had given
> umass-dartmouth a dozen ps3s, and the astrophysics dept had them
> running linux in a cluster doing supercomputer work.  that of course
> says nothing as to whether sony runs linux on them.
>
> i also just read that one of sony's new lcd dtvs runs linux inside.

Everything I have read suggests that it is cheaper to just get IBM's  
blade servers, depending on how much power you need.

On a related note, nVidia now sells GPU clusters.

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Shannon Hendrix
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