It’s been posted hundreds of times before (Slashdotted in 2003 to be exact), but I still love seeing this beautiful shelf of clustered PS2s at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Computer Science department at the University of Illinois. Utilized for the power of the Emotion Engine CPU, the PS2 supercomputer cluster is used as a test bench for scientific computation on ‘toy’ hardware and consists of 65 compute nodes, 4 user login and development nodes and 1 prototype node for software install tests. The cluster is running the Sony Linux kit running a ported Linux distribution based on Red Hat Linux. I’m not sure what the current state of the cluster is, if it still even exists, but I’m sure they can easily add in a few PS3s to the mix, they’re not hard to find, what what I hear (har har har).

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