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From the page: When most of us arrived home with our newly purchased PS3, we couldn't wait to start annihilating aliens in Resistance: Fall of Man or kicking butt kung fu-style in Virtua Fighter 5. Not astrophysicist Gaurav Khanna - he used his to build a supercomputer. Khanna now owns a... more

Reviewed by JIR Mar 11 2008, 07:13am ( 63 reviews ) • reghardware.co.uk

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Rated by geoglyph on Aug 16, 8:33pm

wow.
Rated by apiadeiro on Jul 21, 12:11pm

try to do that with a Xbox or a wii.maybe you could write the code with tennis movements...
Rated by kirkum2020 on Jul 09, 6:56pm

Why didn't I get an article when I built mine out of N64's? lol! I suppose not telling anyone except my mates, who were suitably bored, was the reason but never mind. It runs on a slightly tinkered linux platform too and if you want to write the article you know how to get in touch. It's still around and is currently up to 32 N64's, none bought for more than �10! I haven't benchmarked it since it was at 24 so I'll have to check it out sometime soon and post the details somewhere.
Rated by synicalkid on Oct 31 2008, 8:47pm

nice
Reviewed by thisismyacct on Oct 29 2008, 1:22am

why do people rave on about ps3s? They only run on 3 cores.. the IBM blade servers utilize all of the cores.
Rated by edwinfchilds on May 06 2008, 9:57am

Are you kidding me?!?
Rated by DurhamDad on Mar 25 2008, 3:44pm

LIke the person below all I can say is WOW! I am glad guys like him are around. If research depended on me, we would still be starting a fire with flint and steel.

Installing is Easy!