USAF Unveils Supercomputer Made of 1,760 PS3s 163
digitaldc writes with this excerpt from Gamasutra:
"The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has connected 1,760 PlayStation 3 systems together to create what the organization is calling the fastest interactive computer in the entire Defense Department. The Condor Cluster, as the group of systems is known, also includes 168 separate graphical processing units and 84 coordinating servers in a parallel array capable of performing 500 trillion floating point operations per second (500 TFLOPS), according to AFRL Director of High Power Computing Mark Barnell."
Don't Update (Score:5, Informative)
Don't get the firmware update that gets rid of Linux. OOPS!
Re:Why? (Score:4, Informative)
Cheaper then the IBM CELL Blades...
Re:Don't Update (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What would..... (Score:4, Informative)
Distributed computing. Have a PS3 app that is installed if selected and when your not playing it runs distributed computing. Give the people whos PS3's are been used something in return like online credits for DLC.
Anyone got any figures on how much processing could be available if done?
Folding@Home did exactly what you are proposing. PS3s are a major contributor to the project:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats [stanford.edu]
Re:Why are Sony so horribly short-sighted (Score:2, Informative)
COTS products are generally not ITAR. An item can fall under ITAR when it is designed to specifically meet a US defense requirement or is built using technology or parts that are ITAR.
Re:Why? (Score:4, Informative)
you must be one of those people who think the PC in PowerPC stands for Personal Computer.
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