What to do with $50,000 in Playstations

[Almighty Colin]

As perhaps the clearest evidence yet of the power of sophisticated but inexpensive game consoles, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has assembled a supercomputer from an army of Sony PlayStation 2 devices.

The resulting system, with components purchased at retail prices, cost a little more than $50,000. Researchers at the supercomputing center believe the system may be capable of a half trillion operations a second, well within the definition of supercomputer, although it may not rank among the world's 500 fastest supercomputers.


http://news.com.com/2100-1043_3-1010037.html

[gonzo]

Originally posted by Colin@May 27 2003, 08:56 AM
As perhaps the clearest evidence yet of the power of sophisticated but inexpensive game consoles, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has assembled a supercomputer from an army of Sony PlayStation 2 devices.

The resulting system, with components purchased at retail prices, cost a little more than $50,000. Researchers at the supercomputing center believe the system may be capable of a half trillion operations a second, well within the definition of supercomputer, although it may not rank among the world's 500 fastest supercomputers.


http://news.com.com/2100-1043_3-1010037.html
All that power and it cant even play Boogerman for my NES.

[Rictor]

The Playstations didn't cost anywhere near $50,000. They must have needed some expensive hardware and software to set up the network.

[DrGuile]

Originally posted by gonzo@May 27 2003, 10:02 PM
All that power and it cant even play Boogerman for my NES.
dont you mean Bomberman?

One of the true classics ;)

[Watsonian]

But what could you do with the same amount of NES boxes?