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Old 02-02-2010, 01:06 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Xanthos View Post
Well, in all truthfullness this setup would save them over a half million dollars over a traditional distributed processing supercomputer. At least compared to the one that the National Weather Center uses to run its simulations.
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The PS3 is much more powerful than most people realize. They are being used in distributed computing networks understand things like protein folding and are 10-20x more powerful than typical desktops
I give them props for thinking outside the box with this setup.
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