LOL!! I'm at work.. I've got G4TV on in the back ground and "The Feed" came on. I almost had to laugh. Reminds me of something I heard back whent he PS2 came out claiming that Saddam Hussein bought a majority of the US stock of PS2's to power a computer for guidance missiles!! HAHA

ok..

Anyway.. they were just saying that medical facilities were purchasing PS3's to use the calculating capabilities to help come up with medical breakthroughs such as curing diseases and even cancer. ... hmmmm ...

http://therealps3grill.com/ - Some people are trying to make a grill out of it...

Just kills me.. here I'd love to get my hands on one to play it, and there are folks that buy one.. only to spend 600+ dollars on a piece of crap grill.. when 600+ dollars COULD actually get them a kick ass one. JUST .. so they can undermine the system. And.. what good does it really do.. sony still gets their money.

PS3 can.. CURE CANCER?!?!

I've been saying it for months that it could cure cancer but you guys have all been, "It can't cure cancer. Don't be such an idiot, Marvin" and "No it cannot cure cancer Nine, you're such an idiot".

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Just kills me.. here I'd love to get my hands on one to play it, and there are folks that buy one.. only to spend 600+ dollars on a piece of crap grill.. when 600+ dollars COULD actually get them a kick ass one. JUST .. so they can undermine the system. And.. what good does it really do.. sony still gets their money.

Well, Sony is actualy losing money on it. Besides, it's $600 for a PS3. it's $600+ for a PS3G because of the aditional parts and labor so the grill really costs more. Funny, huh?

yeah.. strange.. I would not want to waste my money on that grill... just seems pointless. Joke... sure.. but.. why? And.. yeah I know they are losing money on each console sold.

$600 is dirt cheap for what is practically a 7 processor computer. It's the perfect setup to use for the calculations and projections that hospitals need to run; and with the PS3 able to boot into Linux, it's easy to take advantage of that power...

In theory.

The reality is that networking the amount of PS3s required to get the sort of calculation power they require would be unworkable, as a PS3 is designed to be a client machine only.

Hmm? Seems like it could work.
That much brain power put into a game console?

8 broadband cell processors doing 1.8 trillion calculations per second. Those are the actual numbers.

1.8 trillion? or was it 6 trillion calculations per second/framerate?

http://therealps3grill.com/ - Some people are trying to make a grill out of it...

Not trying, it looks like they actually did it. :)

Also, I'm glad launch PS3s are finding a use - gamers have no use for one right now.

No wonder the system's so blasted expensive; it can save lives! Guaranteed, the next major system launch will involve actual waters from the Fountain of Immortality running the processors, and if you crack that sucker open to have a swig, guess you'll be running around, playing games for QUITE some time.

most operating systems, including linux, are pretty poorly equipped to take advantage of mutliprocessor anyways, tbqh. =/ i mean, most threading libraries are only okay, and most programs make the assumption of uniprocessor... ness.

By the time the PS3s folding/floating point capabilities are really utilized, clients doing the same work, with less cost for the performance, will be out for the latest generation of PC GPUs, which already out-class PS3 hardware.

It's nice that people will be able to do these things on a PS3, but a PS3 is far from the best harware for...well, for anything. Buying any console, which has fixed, non-upgradable hardware, for things like this, is not the best use of money.

Shit, most of the cost of a PS3 is the blu-ray drive. A cell processor cost about 30-40 dollars to make. It and the hardware needed to run most of these non-gaming programs would cost about 100 dollars, if they were built for that purpose and mass produced.

LOL!! I'm at work.. I've got G4TV on in the back ground and "The Feed" came on. I almost had to laugh. Reminds me of something I heard back whent he PS2 came out claiming that Saddam Hussein bought a majority of the US stock of PS2's to power a computer for guidance missiles!! HAHA

ok..

Anyway.. they were just saying that medical facilities were purchasing PS3's to use the calculating capabilities to help come up with medical breakthroughs such as curing diseases and even cancer. ... hmmmm ...



Somebody I knew used to work for a company that build devices for observing body functions. he told me that actually a PS2 or 3 has much more capabilties then a lot of those devices build for hospitals.