Post: U.S. AirForce Creates 'Super Computer' Out of PS3's.
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12-01-2010, 04:56 AM
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TheBigRod
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The 'Air Force Research Laboratory' has recently connected 1,760 Playstation 3's together to create what is said the fastest, most interactive computer in the Defense Department.
Originally posted by another user
The Condor Cluster, as the group of systems is known, also includes 168 separate graphical processing units and 84 coordinating servers in an parallel array capable of performing 500 trillion floating point operations per second (500 TFLOPS), according to AFRL Director of High Power Computing Mark Barnell.
Mark Barnell says that the total cost of The Condor Cluster is an estimate of $2 Million; which is 10% more expensive than a 'super computer' made out of regular computer parts. This has also taken 1/10 of the power connected to all the other super computers.
After the ribbon cutting on Wednesday, the super computer (housed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Rome, New York.) will be used for research in all branches & centers in all parts of the country.
The defense engineers worked with Sony, buying all of the Playstation 3's, they were uncapable of buying the 'Slim' models, because they did not work with Mac's, specifically 'OSX'.
Originally posted by another user
In 2000, it was widely reported that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was planning to string then-cutting-edge PlayStation 2 systems into a defense supercomputer, though UK intelligence sources dismissed the claims as "nonsense."
Why didn't they use Xbox's for a supercomputer to use with Mac OSX? The world may never know.
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12-01-2010, 05:01 AM
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TheBigRod
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Originally posted by Venom
Are you kidding me. That's crazy.
Yeah I know, insane.
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12-01-2010, 05:12 AM
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iUniQuee
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Originally posted by drew500
See obviously ps3 is way better than xbox ... LOL
na the guy would rather ruin ps3's instead of xbox's
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12-01-2010, 05:13 AM
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Originally posted by TheBigRod
The 'Air Force Research Laboratory' has recently connected 1,760 Playstation 3's together to create what is said the fastest, most interactive computer in the Defense Department.
Mark Barnell says that the total cost of The Condor Cluster is an estimate of $2 Million; which is 10% more expensive than a 'super computer' made out of regular computer parts. This has also taken 1/10 of the power connected to all the other super computers.
After the ribbon cutting on Wednesday, the super computer (housed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Rome, New York.) will be used for research in all branches & centers in all parts of the country.
The defense engineers worked with Sony, buying all of the Playstation 3's, they were uncapable of buying the 'Slim' models, because they did not work with Mac's, specifically 'OSX'.
Why didn't they use Xbox's for a supercomputer to use with Mac OSX? The world may never know.
Source(s): Google News; You must login or register to view this content..
- TheBigRod - NGU Blog Team.
They didn't use xbox's because the xbox has around 3 computer processors or so and the PS3 has 7 available. The ps3 can handle so much more than Microsoft's hackable piece of s***! :p
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12-01-2010, 05:15 AM
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TheBigRod
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Originally posted by TheHondarydr
They didn't use xbox's because the xbox has around 3 computer processors or so and the PS3 has 7 available. The ps3 can handle so much more than Microsoft's hackable piece of s***! :p
Thank you for the information, sir. :y:
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12-01-2010, 07:31 AM
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-Illusionz
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Originally posted by TheBigRod
The 'Air Force Research Laboratory' has recently connected 1,760 Playstation 3's together to create what is said the fastest, most interactive computer in the Defense Department.
Mark Barnell says that the total cost of The Condor Cluster is an estimate of $2 Million; which is 10% more expensive than a 'super computer' made out of regular computer parts. This has also taken 1/10 of the power connected to all the other super computers.
After the ribbon cutting on Wednesday, the super computer (housed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Rome, New York.) will be used for research in all branches & centers in all parts of the country.
The defense engineers worked with Sony, buying all of the Playstation 3's, they were uncapable of buying the 'Slim' models, because they did not work with Mac's, specifically 'OSX'.
Why didn't they use Xbox's for a supercomputer to use with Mac OSX? The world may never know.
Source(s): Google News; You must login or register to view this content..
- TheBigRod - NGU Blog Team.
OMG :O That is crazy, if only I knew how i could break in and steal this supercomputer I would. :derp: Great find man, keep up the great work and well done on pink =D
12-01-2010, 07:57 AM
#10
TheBigRod
uh-may-zuh-zing
Originally posted by Illusionz
OMG :O That is crazy, if only I knew how i could break in and steal this supercomputer I would. :derp: Great find man, keep up the great work and well done on pink =D
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