So the idea of making a PS3 boot a Linux kernel is possible but not so powerful or interesting if you want to play with more complex applications, but for any uses in general you can turn a PS3 into a fully functional PC as shown in this tutorial. This pretty much ended the era of PlayStation supercomputers because when Sony blocked the use of the OtherOS they also blocked the access of the RSX Nvidia GPU chip, making unable to use any kind of hardware acceleration limiting the use of Linux in PS3s as only a regular not so much powerful computer. Things didn't go very well for the PlayStations 3 also, because in March 2010 Sony removed the OtherOS feature due to security concerns.

With this new piece of hardware, a lot of researches tried to work with PS3 in order to build supercomputers, like Gaurav Khanna at UMass Dartmouth, that built a cluster of PS3s to make a pure period simulation work on black holes and the United States Air Force that made a project with more than 1700 PS3s to process images of surveillance drones. PlayStations 3 have more powerful and stable hardware in comparison to PlayStation 2, and also Sony made available a feature called OtherOS, capable of booting Linux in an easy way. Only with the PS3 entering the scene in 2006 the applications started to get more interesting. Things didn't go very well for the PS2 since they started to get unstable when used as clusters to process any kind of data. This idea born in 2002 when Sony released a kit called Linux for the Playstation 2, making it easy to create applications using PS2. The necessity of cheap hardware in a moment when supercomputers were very expensive created the plan to use PlayStations as cluster computers. The main idea is that you can use the same power that is used to run heavy games to run nearly everything, including massive calculations like complicated mathematic models. The history of Linux in PlayStation started with researchers messing with ideas of using graphics processors to boost their computing powers for years. Many people tend to buy new gaming consoles in their launch, meanig a large number of obsolete consoles are left unused the objective of this tutorial is to repurpose these old pieces of hardware by installing GNU/Linux enabliing them to be used for a vast number of applications. If you need to Jailbreak your PS3 you can follow this tutorial: Software: A Linux distribution, we will be using Ubuntu.Hardware: PS3 (Jailbroken), USB Flash Drive, Keyboard, Mouse.Periférico para controlar matriz de led da família WS281x Setting Up the PS3 and Booting from a Live Image

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