Check out this ...

Bizzare ... things people do with Playstations ...

THomas

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2940422.stm

This is not rocket science.

Does NASA expect tax payers to pay for there stupid experiment....

Look

Playstation 2 =Supercomputer...

NASA response let me test it and put it into Algebraic form

Playstation2 x Pie x $300.00(to add the hard drive and nic card) = Supercomputer....

Reply form 5 year old kid at home....

Dad pls bring back my playstation 2 have to play NBA 2003....

Reply from boss

IT department pls hurry my son wants his Gaming console back.

P.S. at the first of the month we will take $50,000 and by PS2....

Know my wife won't know I playing games at work....

Also how's got the Grand Theft Auto Vice City

Reply

President Bush came last week to talk about the NASA shuttle crash. He also took Grand Theft Auto Vice City saying this would train him on the mindset of a gangster and how to get ride of crime and all tax payers how hate my Tax bill.



What is NASA hiring the gala-tic idiots.

Funny would like to see the job openings at NASA...

Looking for someone with 20 years experience in playing games.

10 years on Nintendo.
10 years on Sega.
3 years on Playstation 2.

Can explain all the differences bewteen gaming consoles.


I'll beat any amount of money they had trouble turning on the PS2 and insterting the game....

A better site is:
http://arrakis.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ps2/cluster.php

I'd sure like to have 70 Linux PS2's. One is enough for now, though.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a leader in defining the future's high-performance cyberinfrastructure for scientists, engineers, and society.

Now, I read this first portion and still don't see what Sony Playstation has to do with Science....hmmmm......

I must be stupid


Correctness of the results has been established, with agreement of total energier beyond the microhartree level compared to known working versions of GAMESS on Linux and other platforms.

Next he explains above that he turns this into a Linux Gaming station

However, the performance which one observes following this straightforward porting strategy is unimpressive. A large part of the problem comes from the lack of hardware support for double precision on the PS2.


Nevertheless after this result what would make you go bye 70 PS2's. If you have a lack of preformance



Figure 3. Comparison of PS2 and PIII-600 performance on dot products of vectors with 32 elements. Performance is nearly identical for smaller date sets, but there is an apparent problem with caching after a certain point on the PS2. This may be partially a consequence of the details of the performance benchmark, but the conclusion that the small cache size will be an important performance factor in optimization of PS2 code is likely quite general.


Above again, here he expalins that he overclocked a PS2 by elimanting unessary programs but yet it still doesn't run as fast as PIII. Better yet concludes it is a caching problem. Let me see we use a PS2 to run video games off a disk and only temperary storage is needed to play the game...hmmm......

Brilliant ...... What special ed kid thought this up...

Now, after my and your tax dallors are spent on this Specila Ed kidd....

First, wasting time with the setup..



Second, programmer had to edit the C code used...

Now, figuring that he could have used an assembly code to control the over all ability of the cpu and memory usage. He selects a C language....

Third , They buy 70 units....

What one unit versus a PIII is not enought to figure out the overall performance....

I know they needed more coffee mug holders....


Finally what about all nic cards and Fiber optic Cable you just wasted hmmm

This really gets me mad.....

Thanks though that is a good peice of information