Talk:Playstation 3 cluster

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I think it might be interesting to discuss the pricing implications of using Playstation 3 to build cluster servers. Specifically, game machines are typically sold at break-even or a loss, and the profit (for Sony in this case) is derived from royalties on sales of game software. However, this revenue stream doesn't exist when PS3's are sold into compute cluster installations. So rather than buying say a BladeCenter QS21 system from IBM, it might be significantly cheaper to build a cluster from PS3's. Thus, if the PS3 cluster market were to take off, it would present a difficult pricing problem for Sony. Westwind273 (talk) 00:27, 1 March 2008 (UTC)