How to build a supercomputer from Playstation 3s

December 18, 2008 | Source: KurzweilAI

Two UMass Dartmouth sceientists have created a step-by-step guide to building a home-brew supercomputer from Sony Playstation 3s for $4,000–the cost of 5,000 hours at $1 per hour on the National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid computing infrastructure.