{"id":1950,"date":"2006-04-04T07:48:35","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T12:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2006-04-03T17:51:01","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T22:51:01","slug":"playstation-2-clusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/04\/playstation-2-clusters\/","title":{"rendered":"Playstation 2 Clusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting lots of messages (email, IM, sms, etc&#8230;) regarding my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/01\/new-company\/\">new grid hosting company<\/a>, so I decided to post some facts:<\/p>\n<h3>Fact #1:<\/h3>\n<p>Clustering on PS2&#8217;s is very real, in fact, the NCSA has constructed a PlayStation 2 Linux cluster as a test bench for scientific computation.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/arrakis.ncsa.uiuc.edu\/ps2\/cluster.php\" target=\"_blank\">PlayStation 2: Computational Cluster<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The cluster consists of 65 compute nodes, 4 user login and development nodes, and 1 prototype node for software installation tests. All the nodes run the Sony Linux distribution for PlayStation 2. The compute nodes fill a 24-inch rack; 5 shelves at 13 per shelf<\/p>\n<p>The Sony Linux kit (for PlayStation 2) includes a full Linux operating system. This distribution uses Linux 2.2.1 ported to the PlayStation&#8217;s Emotion Engine CPU, and is based on an earlier version of Red Hat Linux for PC&#8217;s. The distribution includes development tools that you would expect; libraries, editors, compilers and debuggers that you&#8217;d find in any Linux distribution. The kit also includes software tools that provide hooks into the PlayStation 2 specific hardware. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Fact #2:<\/h3>\n<p>Building a computational cluster using PS2&#8217;s, with the help of the people I met at SC&#8217;05, is absolutely something I would try to do.  And apparently &#8211; none of my friends would ever be suprised if they heard I had.<\/p>\n<h3>Fact #3:<\/h3>\n<p>The entry was posted on April 1st &#8211; aka, April Fool&#8217;s day. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So:<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for all the positive feedback and well wishes, but I&#8217;m not insane enough to try to build a company selling computational time on video gaming consoles. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting lots of messages (email, IM, sms, etc&#8230;) regarding my new grid hosting company, so I decided to post some facts: Fact #1: Clustering on PS2&#8217;s is very real, in fact, the NCSA has constructed a PlayStation 2 Linux cluster as a test bench for scientific computation. From PlayStation 2: Computational Cluster: The cluster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}