US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144
bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."
The harder one to explain (Score:1, Funny)
were the 2,200 copies of the new Guitar Hero.
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They already know they don't run Linux, they just to play Uncharted 2 and Demon's Souls.
Black Friday Deals! (Score:5, Funny)
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Except the Army?
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Its the Air Force, it'd be an Airwolf cluster.
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I just had a scary thought of instead of using linux, they just program a "UAV flight game" and leave them in various Air Force recreation centers.
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Amazing! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Black Friday Deals! (Score:3, Funny)
SOF got in there the night before.
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So. Just in time for Xmas. The Airforce of the United States is depriving children of consoles at the peak of season?
That's 2,200 children who will wake up, sad and dissapointed - with a boxing day that brings only an electric train set, or an iPod touch.
I weep for the dead children in Afghanistan and the empty stockings of children on the American home front.