alt Hacker NewsLinux on PS5 seems absolutely amazing.
Anybody running any AI models using the GPU of PS5 or using the ram (16GB).
PS5 is probably sold at a loss/bare minimum profit to turn profit during the gaming product itself, not the hardware as compared to the steam machine
So running Linux on PS5 is so freaking cool. Gonna have to share this article with my brother who owns one.
This reminds me of that time when US govt. bought over 1700* (see derektank's comment) PS3 or similar and hooked them up all together to make a supercomputer because this way it costed them less than having a computer themselves and Today's ram prices being 5 times higher in such short term is yea.
PS5 hacking community feels really cool!
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Asrock sold a mining rig using reject PS5 APUs, called the BC-250. They're readily available on the used market, although the prices have doubled over the last six months, as is the case worth anything that has a reasonable amount of RAM.
They're binned down a little from the production PS5, but even at full power it's bit the best bang for the buck. For a model that needs 16 GB of RAM, a $100 used AMD Mi25 is the cheapest way to go, and a $200 used 16GB Intel A770 scales that up, at around double the performance for around double the price.
The Air Force Research Lab’s “Condor Cluster” was actually composed of over 1700 PS3
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/114782/plays...
From 2021: 3800 PS4 in Ukraine, thought to be a cryptocurrency farm. Was actually a FIFA bot farm. [1]
[1] https://www.eurogamer.net/ukraine-warehouse-packed-with-thou...
If your brother‘s PS5 isn’t on Firmware 2.x or below he is out of luck and it won’t work.
> Nguyen said the setup only works with a full chain exploit such as Byepervisor, which is aimed at older firmware. The public Byepervisor repository says that support for PS5 firmware in the 1.xx to 2.xx range
https://videocardz.com/newz/modder-turns-playstation-5-into-...
If you read through the comments on the thread, that's actually why this works.
AMD sold binned PS5 chips to crytomining endeavors. They resold the boards on eBay for cheap. So there's a history of people tinkering with rejected PS5 chips from cheap eBay purchases. That work lead to amdgpu/Mesa support, which is why this guy has raytracing on a real PS5.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/11982