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You're being down voted, but it's the truth. PS2 were sold so much below cost it wasn't uncommon to see hobbiests and institutions building beowulf clusters with them.

But these days, consoles aren't sold below cost, and gigabit network isn't fast enough to make cluster computing make sense



https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29651383

A 64 bit MIPS processor that can run linux + networking for 299$.

I know is not exactly the same but how much was a SGI workstation 20k? 40k? 80k?




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