On PS3 6 SPE + 1 PPE is used, each has 3.2 GHz. They http://www.ps3grid.net/ compared the performance. There is also a Linux version which can be booted from a USB stick.Originally Posted by Brucifer
On my project yoyo@home PS3 is 3 times faster than a core duo with 3 GHz.
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200 watts? A quick google search indicated it might be closer to 380Watts, a serious difference
I'd read that the PS3 was a serious power hog
I stand corrected. I think it uses 200 watts to watch a movie or play a game.
I'll hook it up to my kill-a-watt device to get an exact reading under full DC load, eventually.
But still, at 380 Watts, in RC5, the output is more than the combined output of what my brother and I had in total, which was very close to 100GHz at one point. It was costing us both over $500 each per month to run all those computers.
You can look at each run we made close to ~3,000, not counting the two ~6,000 'two day dumps' and see this one 380watt device beats all of it.
Next will be OGR in a day or three, to see what it can do there.
Just interesting comparisons.
With 2, 3 or even 1/2 dozen of the PS3s, in very limited projects, you could make a significant impact in stats and contributions.
168Mkey/s is absolutely crazy! I'd love to see what sort of number you can manage for OGR. On my QuadCore 6600 (4 cores @ 2.4Ghz each) I'm getting about 140Mnodes/sec, for comparison purposes.
I found this
The build 502 client (again two week limited beta) is out for the Playstation 3's "Cell Broandband Engine" CPU and introduces an optimized OGR core which reaches an awesome 230 Mnodes/s using all cores.
For comparison, that's around 30% faster than a 3 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad (using all 4 cores), which is clock for clock probably the fastest general purpose CPU around at the moment.
If you have a PS3 and run Linux on it, dnet needs to be on there
Awesome IB! If only they harnessed this power earlier in the project, we could've stomped this thing sooner.
PS3's are turning out to be awesome crunchers, just as IB has already said.
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