From PlayStation to Supercomputer for $50,000


From PlayStation to Supercomputer for $50,000 -- John Markoff  -- New York Times  -- May 26, 2003
Metacomputing

As perhaps the clearest evidence yet of the computing power of sophisticated but inexpensive video-game consoles, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has assembled a supercomputer from a mere 70 Sony PlayStation 2's.

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