You heard it right, Sony plans to turn the Playstation 3 into a distributed computer. Satisfying customer demand that they want a gaming platform that far exceeds that of current hardware. Speaking at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), an annual trade show for the creative and technological sides of the game industry, Shin'ichi Okamoto, chief technical officer for Sony Computer Entertainment, said research efforts for the PlayStation 3 are focusing on distributed computing, a method for spreading computational tasks across myriad networked computers.

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