Sony's Warhawk server farm is made of PS3s [Joystiq]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3 (http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/)

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Incognito's Dylan Jobe is the man behind Warhawk (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/Warhawk/) and over at the PlayStation.Blog (http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/08/08/behind-the-curtain-the-warhawk-servers/), he wants to share with you some details on the tech behind the game's dedicated servers. Sure, Warhawk is going to offer players the ability to host matches straight from their own PS3, but they're also offering "Ranked-Dedicated" servers which are powered by - you guessed it! - PlayStation 3s! Sony's IT team has apparently built clusters like this "all over the world," providing gamers with an ostensibly reliable backbone for Warhawk fragging while providing the tinfoil hat crowd a compelling reason to unplug their PS3. They can talk to each other you know ... can't you hear them?!

[Via Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/11/sony-erects-massive-ps3-server-cluster-for-warhawk-mayhem/)]

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[Flack]

I approved this one. I really like people performing PC-like services using consoles. I guess that just goes to show how PC-like most of the new consoles really are.

[Trebuken]

They should have called IBM instead...

I would imagine this idea came from the amazing success of the Folding@Home project. Looks awful expensive though...but i guess since this is a Sony game they got them at cost...probably are gutted units with little more than processors...

[Cinder6]

but i guess since this is a Sony game they got them at cost...

So, $700 each? :)

[Nintendo Gamer]

.....

[icbrkr]

They had to find *some* use for em!

</ducks>

[walrusmonger]

yeah now they can say "the ps3 is as powerful as a supercomputer" or something :)

[Sothy]

now if only i had 600 bucks to play substandard 360 ports

[smork]

now if only i had 600 bucks to play substandard 360 ports

**$500** until the end of the month.

I think it's pretty cool to see consoles used like that. Now if theywould only unlock the system so Linux could be run at a decent speed.....

[Niku-Sama]

i rember some one doing something similar with PS2's when they first came out.