Monday, October 8, 2007

Playstation 3 used as a supercomputer

Researchers from Unicamp (Brazil) are using Playstation 3, actually, 12 of them, connected as a Network to analyze biological data!!!

They use the power of its 8 cell processors and a huge memory to do the job!!!

The complete article can be found in
http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Ciencia/0,,MUL146410-5603,00.html
or
http://br-linux.org/linux/unicamp-usa-playstation-3-para-realizar-pesquisas

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