[TriLUG] OT: PS2 Linux Cluster

Jeff Jackowski jeffj1 at hiwaay.net
Mon May 26 23:20:17 EDT 2003


On Mon, 26 May 2003, Turnpike Man wrote:

>Holy smokes that's neat... and being that linux is installed... :)  I like it
>even more!  Are these linux modules available now for PS2 owners??

They have been for a while and still are. You can get them from:

http://www.us.playstation.com/

With a small portable LCD, it could make the PS2 a low cost portable 
computer and game system, but certainly not a notebook computer.

>laters,
>David M.
>
>--- Scott Lundgren wrote:
>> I'm going to guess the megalomaniac in all of us has pondered a beowulf
>> cluster for a serious game of Doom/Quake or BZFlag at some point. Apparently
>> so did the NCSA, 65-node PS2 Cluster:
>> 
>> http://arrakis.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ps2/cluster.php
>> 
>> Wonder if they'll try that Oracle firewire cluster with it. ;)
>> 
>> - SL

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Jeff Jackowski
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