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PS3 supercomputer up and running
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article published on 27 March, 2011
Rome Research Lab completed construction of, and is using, a "supercomputer" composed of off-the-shelf PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles.
The lab linked together 1,716 PS3 consoles and exploited the OtherOS functionality (I guess they didn't update then) to build what they are describing as one of the world's fastest and cheapest supercomputers. They claim it is in the top 40 most powerful supercomputers.
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shortybob
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27. March 2011 @ 20:23 |
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What are you gonna do now, Sony? Sue them? Effing do it! What, are you afraid of someone that can defend themselves?
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27. March 2011 @ 20:44 |
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Originally posted by shortybob:
What are you gonna do now, Sony? Sue them? Effing do it! What, are you afraid of someone that can defend themselves?
Haha, they explioted the OtherOS. Take that, Sony!
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plissken13x
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28. March 2011 @ 01:29 |
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Originally posted by shortybob:
What are you gonna do now, Sony? Sue them? Effing do it! What, are you afraid of someone that can defend themselves?
Of course not. Why would they ever sue a company that is providing good publicity for them? Hell, Sony probably even gave them the PS3s at discount or free for a write off. It is kind of dick that all this is happening parallel with the Geohot case.
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scorpNZ
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28. March 2011 @ 01:46 |
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Originally posted by plissken13x:
Originally posted by shortybob:
What are you gonna do now, Sony? Sue them? Effing do it! What, are you afraid of someone that can defend themselves?
It is kind of dick that all this is happening parallel with the Geohot case.
Can't disagree on the last paragraph it certainly seems like a bad joke even more so when i assume sony's own eula doesn't allow running anything it wasn't intended for
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xnonsuchx
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28. March 2011 @ 04:52 |
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WOW! This news is from like NOVEMBER 2010! Slow day, AfterDawn? ;-)
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xnonsuchx
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28. March 2011 @ 04:58 |
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Originally posted by plissken13x:
...Sony probably even gave them the PS3s at discount or free for a write off.
Actually, they were mostly the 160GB Uncharted bundle models that were sourced by those who set up the cluster. I wonder what they did w/ all those NFR copies of Uncharted, though?
BTW, it's also 2016 PS3s total...they had a cluster of 300 before and added the mentioned 1716 last November.
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presy
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28. March 2011 @ 08:57 |
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Originally posted by xnonsuchx:
WOW! This news is from like NOVEMBER 2010! Slow day, AfterDawn? ;-)
lol, nice one there. Sony deserves this if you ask me.
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28. March 2011 @ 10:55 |
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Bah whatas the small use of it by any business, they need to sue to keep the general public in line!Update those systems or we are taking them back by force!
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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YRazor
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28. March 2011 @ 11:06 |
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what are they gonna do when 716 of the PS3's YLOD lmao
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plissken13x
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28. March 2011 @ 19:11 |
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Originally posted by bd:
Sure Let make assumptions as to what the real reason is for doing this. This news was issued in 2006. SOny did not remove the other OS till 2009. In fact because the US military dose not want there enemies utalizing this tech they probably "asked" sony to remove the OtherOS.
That is the most ridiculous claim I ever heard. If the military did not want the platform to be copied they would not have used a public system period. This cluster system from what I read is more like a military pet project.
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emugamer
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28. March 2011 @ 19:15 |
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Originally posted by scorpNZ:
Originally posted by plissken13x:
Originally posted by shortybob:
What are you gonna do now, Sony? Sue them? Effing do it! What, are you afraid of someone that can defend themselves?
It is kind of dick that all this is happening parallel with the Geohot case.
Can't disagree on the last paragraph it certainly seems like a bad joke even more so when i assume sony's own eula doesn't allow running anything it wasn't intended for
You can run anything you want. As long as you don't update the firmware. The choice was either OtherOS or PSN. How is it that people are referencing the geohot case? People who stayed at lower fw are not the ones Sony is after. They want the people who modify the firmware, which happens to encompass people who sneak into the psn, cheat and steal games.
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hastypete
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1. April 2011 @ 14:52 |
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That would be so funny if someone at the lab decided to update the firmware.
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2. April 2011 @ 08:45 |
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Originally posted by YRazor:
what are they gonna do when 716 of the PS3's YLOD lmao
Yknow, heh, that thought occurred to me.
Do you think those guys would have made that investment and not grabbed those keys as soon as they were released on the net?
Yeah sure, *cough cough*, all our ps3's are old models.... which we would never replace should they brick *cough cough*.
10 to 1 the mobos aren't even in the original cases anymore. :)
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EDIT: I just remembered arguing with some dude here recently about the value of doing this. He stated emphatically that it would be a utter waste of time and money to make a PS3 cluster on any scale. Well if you're out there buddy.... suck on it. :D
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