you get grid computing or clusters, the terminology depending on how distributed the compute hardware is in physical space. while you could set up a beowulf cluster of playstations the cluster would be mogged by a few smartwatches
if you want a taste of HPC wire some old cheap dells together and get some open source scientific payloads running on your microcluster. you too can blow up stars anon
>A Beowulf cluster
Haven't heard that term for so many years. As a kid it was always something that sounded super cool and advanced... but is now just forgotten.
>A Beowulf cluster
Haven't heard that term for so many years. As a kid it was always something that sounded super cool and advanced... but is now just forgotten.
They just don't use the term anymore but the concept it still widespread. All the biggest supercomputers use similar software methods even today
By throwing them on the trash and buying a $200 gpu from 2015 which will have an order of magnitude more computing power (both theoretical and actual)
A single 970 has more FLOPs than the largest and most powerful supercomputer in the world circa 1999. I'd be surprised if what you had there was even half as fast as a shitty igpu in 2020.
it won't be good for computing power. but they all have network cards so I would say it could be used as a server farm that only does lightweight text processing, e.g., LULZ could probably run on those.
Not him but they're stripped down units. I know they had no optical drives and iirc they were early enough to have had card readers and were shipped without those too. I don't know about the software side
theoretically, the ps2's could have linux installed on all of their hard drives and you could then connect them all to a huge ethernet switch except that would not only require having the ethernet port adapter for all of them but also extensive advanced knowledge of linux networking modules. if you somehow rigged up all of this using the hardware pictured, it wouldn't even be as powerful as a ten year old netbook, so super computing is out of the question.
you would be more productive to go to your local library for your personal computing needs.
actually, how many Playstation 2 consoles do you have? their cpu was just under 300MHz so if you had twenty all in a cluster it could be around 6GHz or so.. but again the ethernet adapters would probably sink the entire worth of the whole system. if you had all the hardware laying around, it would be fun to fiddle with the outdated linux variant offered for the Playstation 2.
hahaha
Can't. BUS limitations. You could probably use the most busted ones for parts to fix the others and sell them decently and buy a nice computer however.
ps2's are hella easy to softmod just need a specially crafted memcard save files psx i think you can hotswap disks sell em on ebay as is and keep a few for yourself/familly (christmas is coming up)
>32-bit supercomputer
>LULZ - Technology
>LULZ - Reply Spam
wait, was that thing called where you connect a bunch of computers together? a mesh? why did that never take off?
you get grid computing or clusters, the terminology depending on how distributed the compute hardware is in physical space. while you could set up a beowulf cluster of playstations the cluster would be mogged by a few smartwatches
if you want a taste of HPC wire some old cheap dells together and get some open source scientific payloads running on your microcluster. you too can blow up stars anon
hmmm... botnets...
pic unrelated btw
A Beowulf cluster
Ask Slashdot about how those worked out
>A Beowulf cluster
Haven't heard that term for so many years. As a kid it was always something that sounded super cool and advanced... but is now just forgotten.
forgotten because newfag redditors now call it a kubernetes
They just don't use the term anymore but the concept it still widespread. All the biggest supercomputers use similar software methods even today
The modern answer is called spark, Pinot and Kafka
too heavy
sell them.
buy computer
You wouldn't.
By throwing them on the trash and buying a $200 gpu from 2015 which will have an order of magnitude more computing power (both theoretical and actual)
A single 970 has more FLOPs than the largest and most powerful supercomputer in the world circa 1999. I'd be surprised if what you had there was even half as fast as a shitty igpu in 2020.
how come we measure computing in flops?
aren't iops more gooder?
It wouldn't be very super. Your phone is much more powerful.
these statement are big smartphone lies, I tried ps2 emulation on my phone and the peformance is shit.
it won't be good for computing power. but they all have network cards so I would say it could be used as a server farm that only does lightweight text processing, e.g., LULZ could probably run on those.
I don't know how useful a pickup truck will be as part of a supercomputer
need to move it around or spin the wheel to make power for the network
Is the computer in the truck comparable or better than the ps2?
Use plan9. Easy
Holy shit is that actually possible?
those are ps3's and their ram is like 64MB
256MB of ram papu
also fyi i have 2 of those from the navy or airforce cluster has that same node sticker on it which im leaving on (got em for 50$ pre rona on ebay)
Does it actually still work as a normal PS3?
Bretty nuts that GTA V could run on it.
Not him but they're stripped down units. I know they had no optical drives and iirc they were early enough to have had card readers and were shipped without those too. I don't know about the software side
yes i installed rebug cfw on them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_(operating_system)
Sell them on eBay and buy Raspberry Pis.
All of those together would be less powerful than my current computer.
haha what a meme
theoretically, the ps2's could have linux installed on all of their hard drives and you could then connect them all to a huge ethernet switch except that would not only require having the ethernet port adapter for all of them but also extensive advanced knowledge of linux networking modules. if you somehow rigged up all of this using the hardware pictured, it wouldn't even be as powerful as a ten year old netbook, so super computing is out of the question.
you would be more productive to go to your local library for your personal computing needs.
actually, how many Playstation 2 consoles do you have? their cpu was just under 300MHz so if you had twenty all in a cluster it could be around 6GHz or so.. but again the ethernet adapters would probably sink the entire worth of the whole system. if you had all the hardware laying around, it would be fun to fiddle with the outdated linux variant offered for the Playstation 2.
hahaha
clusters dont scale like 300*20
That's 600GFLOPS of PS2
SOVL
please post more consoles with operating systems
someone just watched chappie for the first time
u can train a PLAYSTATION GPT
Can't. BUS limitations. You could probably use the most busted ones for parts to fix the others and sell them decently and buy a nice computer however.
I count 97 ps2
Assuming that all of them work their combined power is 1 teraflop.
An Nvidia gtx 480 is 1.3 teraflops
crush and melt them into a solid cube and dump it at some retroomer's house
Get some optic fiber and light it up. You'll find cheap fiber on chinese christmas trees.
i'd want a couple of these even if they didnt work.
ps2's are hella easy to softmod just need a specially crafted memcard save files psx i think you can hotswap disks sell em on ebay as is and keep a few for yourself/familly (christmas is coming up)
all these naysayers and you aren't even factoring in the ps1's power into equations
>imagine the smokers' grime clogging those innards
yummy