Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's 212
The Air Force's Research Lab in Rome, NY. has one of the cheapest supercomputers ever made, and best of all over 3,000 of your friends can play Tekken on it. The computer is made from 1,716 PlayStation 3s linked together, and is used to process images from spy planes. From the article: "The Air Force calls the souped-up PlayStations the Condor Supercomputer and says it is among the 40 fastest computers in the world. The Condor went online late last year, and it will likely change the way the Air Force and the Air National Guard watch things on the ground." We covered this story back in December when the Condor first went online.
Upgrades. (Score:5, Funny)
Watch out for that next firmware update!
Like in the movies... (Score:5, Funny)
The Air Force is also using the Condor to process ground-based radar images of space objects, again with extraordinary clarity. Barnell shows images of a space shuttle orbiting Earth at 5 miles a second. Without Condor processing, the shuttle image is a blurry black triangle. With Condor processing, it is sharp and distinct. It’s clear that its payload doors are open.
Zoom! Enhance!
War Games (Score:5, Funny)
Halp (Score:4, Funny)
Re:DMCA broken (Score:3, Funny)
No, because they don't *have* to update the firmware and as long as they're not planning to connect to the Playstation Network with it, they don't even *need* to update to the latest firmware that removes that functionality. Of course, if they did have to, I bet it sure would come in handy if there was some guy who could "jailbreak" the system to allow people to make further use of it. *ahem*
Can you imagine (Score:2, Funny)
Can you imagine what it would be like if it was made instead of 1716 XBOX 360's?
They would be replacing red-ringed XBOXes more often than scientists had to replace vacuum tubes on ENIAC. [wikipedia.org]