The PS 3 R © Grid - resource model

This paper introduces the PS3 R © Grid-resource model, which allows any Internet connected Playstation 3 to become a Grid Node without any software installation. The PS3 R © is an interesting Grid resource as each of the over 5 millions sold world wide contains a powerful heterogeneous multi core vector processor well suited for scientific computing. The PS3 R © Grid node provides a native Linux execution environment for scientific applications. Performance numbers show that the model is usable when the input and output data sets are small. The resulting system is in use today, and freely available to any research project.