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The PlayStation 3 for High-Performance Scientific Computing

2008; AIP Publishing; Volume: 10; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/mcse.2008.85

1558-366X

Jakub Kurzak, Alfredo Buttari, Piotr Łuszczek, Jack Dongarra,

Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems

The heart of the Sony PlayStation 3, the STI CELL processor, wasn't originally intended for scientific number crunching, just as the PlayStation 3 itself wasn't meant primarily to serve such purposes. Yet, both these items could impact the high-performance computing world. This introductory article takes a closer look at the cause of this potential disturbance.