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- Re: Mom and Dad buy me a PS3 - Distributed Computing
By: Mike
Date: Apr 29, 2007 6:41 AM - Re: Mom and Dad buy me a PS3 - Distributed Computing
By: Shane Wilson
Date: Apr 27, 2007 10:17 AM - Re: Mom and Dad buy me a PS3 - Distributed Computing
By: Andrew Flusche
Date: Apr 16, 2007 10:41 PM
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12 April 2007
Mom and Dad buy me a PS3 - Distributed Computing
The new generation of video game consoles like Xbox360, PS3 or WII go beyond being a platform for games. You may run various software, listen to music or watch movies. Of course all of these consoles can connect to the internet. The industry would like the consoles to be something like the iPod for your home as they have greater control on our behavior and supply side compare to a PC. In addition, the power of todays consoles' processor is so powerful that a network of up to 11-12.000 idle PS3 users support Stanford's Folding@Home project (understand protein folding an related diseases) at any time. Sony is already thinking of other ways in utilizing the network in commercial ways. Any ideas? Please comment.
Finally, here is a list of distributed computing projects. Parents should still be sceptical if kids ask for a video game console to conduct scientific research. :-).
Posted by Alexander Schellong at April 12, 2007 12:49 AM
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Comments
I never had any idea that game consoles could be used for distributed computing like this. That definitely provides something of a justification for buying one. At least it can make somebody feel a little better after spending all day slaying dragons (or whatever video games do now).
Awesome post!
Andrew
Posted by: Andrew Flusche at April 16, 2007 10:41 PM
A commercial use for this would be to sell advertising to companies for placement on the screen while a game is loading. You would have someone's full attention and depending on the popularity of the game, a lot of attention at that.
Posted by: Shane Wilson at April 27, 2007 10:17 AM
The STI Cell architecture used for the Sony PS3 console is indeed great and very powerful. Actually, the standard STI Cell processor would have one PPE unit (Power Processing Element) and 8 SPEs (Synergistic Processing Elements). This would give a 4GHz processor a maximum bandwidth of 25,6 GBYtes/sec and a calculation power of around 256 Gflops (Single point precision) or 25,6 (Floating point precision).
And this is so much more than what a Desktop processor can provide these days. Unfortunately other components can keep pace with the STI Cell processor, so it won't be used at its full capacity for a while. And, the STI Cell will require some new programming techniques in order to extract its raw power, and this also will take time..
In the future we could find this technology used in various domains, starting with research and military and finishing with.. gaming consoles. Oh, wait, they already use it on that.. :)
Posted by: Mike at April 29, 2007 6:41 AM