[TriLUG] OT: PS2 Linux Cluster, NY Times story

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 23:36, Scott Lundgren wrote:

> "The limited memory of the Sony game console — 32 megabytes of memory —
> would also restrict the practical applications of the supercomputer, they
> said."

If you try to do normal computing, then yes, this is a restriction.
But, the Playstation is a unique system.  While it may not have
much memory, its bandwidth is incredible.  So, rather than load
everything into memory, things can be loaded into memory again
and again very quickly.  You can do the same kinds of things,
you just need to think about different ways of doing them.

Tanner
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