If you can afford near about $5000, then gather some RISC processors, speedy system buses, high speed memory, motherboards and the most, eight 60 GB PS3s interlinked to form a cluster to make some 480 GB storage capacity and assemble them, if you have required technical knowledge to do so. After hacking them software-wise into submission, making them into a Beowulf cluster, you will end up with a supercomputer enough for speedy and heavy computing.
Sony’s PlayStation 3 gives you relatively open platform, which makes programming scientific applications feasible like running Linux on it, which gives you attractive cost-performance in both distributed and clustered PS3s.
Therefore, it’s no logic to lack behind in modern world with working on a lazy and ordinary PC when you have the formula for a supercomputer at your hand.
Via: Slashgear
