Post: U.S. AirForce Creates 'Super Computer' Out of PS3's.
Options
12-01-2010, 04:56 AM
#1
TheBigRod
uh-may-zuh-zing
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.
Source(s): Google News; You must login or register to view this content..
- TheBigRod - NGU Blog Team.
The following 8 users say thank you to TheBigRod for this useful post:
12-03-2010, 12:48 AM
#30
RavagedBoom
Sing My Guitar
Originally posted by TheBigRod
I don't know, mate.
Went to Google News, it said it was made on the 30th.
Went to Google News, it said it was made on the 30th.
I saw it on Yahoo!
12-03-2010, 01:09 AM
#31
Skylines
The Forgotten
Originally posted by River
They don't use Xbox's because it would break in the middle of something important :p Face it, Xbox is unreliable.
lol if they used xbox's they better hope they bought ones with warranty, because ylod is know to strike at any time :carling:
12-03-2010, 01:12 AM
#32
NP Carling26
Trolling is a art
Originally posted by CerberusGaming
Have you guys been hiding in a cave for the past few years? This is old news this is older news than when Sony got rid of the other os capability on the PS3
The news that was posted several months ago merely stated that it would affect the Military's plans of setting it up, it did not say that it had already been set up. At the time of the Other OS removal, they were still setting this up. It was just "opened" yesterday for use.
Also, I came.
12-03-2010, 01:29 AM
#33
TheBigRod
uh-may-zuh-zing
Originally posted by NP
The news that was posted several months ago merely stated that it would affect the Military's plans of setting it up, it did not say that it had already been set up. At the time of the Other OS removal, they were still setting this up. It was just "opened" yesterday for use.
Also, I came.
Also, I came.
Thank you for the clear up, Carling.
And I think I came too.
12-04-2010, 12:45 AM
#35
ukimpact
Splicer
this is how warhawk servers and sony servers are like im not suprised if the military brought the cluster from sony as a old server base somewhere perhaps even a old warhawk server somewhere .....
ps3 is a good machine when linked together can create a huge computer xbox cant do this as its processor is different
and the downgrades ect will always be around as well as dev modes as this is the only way sony set there servers up so the console will always bee able to go into a secret dev mode to downgrade
ps3 is a good machine when linked together can create a huge computer xbox cant do this as its processor is different
and the downgrades ect will always be around as well as dev modes as this is the only way sony set there servers up so the console will always bee able to go into a secret dev mode to downgrade
Copyright © 2026, NextGenUpdate.
All Rights Reserved.
