Playstation 3 Computing Cluster

[jorg]

http://www.physorg.com/news92674403.html

8 ps3s. gives them the ability to compute 500 instruction a second at only 5 grand seems like a good deal

"Scientific computing is just number crunching, which the PS3s are very good at given the Cell processor and deploying them in a cluster,” Mueller says. “Right now one limitation is the 512 megabyte RAM memory constraint, but it might be possible to retrofit more RAM. We just haven’t cracked the case and explored that option yet.”
so running linux the ps3 has 512 mb of ram