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From: Andrew Price
Date: 23 Mar 2007 14:50:01
Message: <web.4604234457d7493bb4888b4a0@news.povray.org>
Hi folks!

I was just looking at this page:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/breaking-ps3-folding-ps3-triples-folding-at-homes-computing-power-to-over
-500-tflopspflops-in-spitting-range-246664.php

It would seem that each PS3 is contributing the same CPU horsepower as 24.6
pcs on average.

Since this task is similar in resource needs to a pov render -- mostly
needing CPU and some memory, with very little IO; and since pov rendering
is also highly parallelalizable (sp?) it seems to me that a native PS3 port
of pov might be highly desirable around here.

What do others think? Is there some way I can help make such a thing come
into being?

Cheers

Andy


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