Professional use of PS3

[Kai Staats]

Kaliteal,

> > in first place thanks for the answer. I think i dont explain the
> > situation properly. We have an analysis and development group in our
> > University (UFBA Federal university of Bahia) here in Brasil and our
> > demand of computational power is growin very fast. We have planed to buy
> > one workstation with 2 Xeons quad but first i want to make sure that its
> > the only way to go. In the project Folding/Home i see what the PS3 are
> > capable of so will be very interesting if instead of a single workstation
> > we buy 3 or 4 PS3 to do the work. The software that we use for the
> > analysis (NX-Nastran) have one Linux version and what i need to now is if
> > anyone already make something like this. Unfortunately i cant afort to
> > pay for one PS3 (if i could i brought one for myself a long time ago and
> > dont have to bother anyone whith this questioning :D ).

FOLDING at Home is currently available for the GameOS and x86 Linux:
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

Sincerely,
kai