US Air Force to buy 2,200 more PS3s
The US Air Force is now looking to purchase 2,200 PS3s – no, the troops aren’t planning to have the coolest multiplayer party on Earth, nor are they taking the fight against terrorism to PSN. Rather, they’ll be adding those to the 336 units that they already have to further their supercomputer research.
The US Air Force is now looking to purchase 2,200 PS3s – no, the troops aren’t planning to have the coolest multiplayer party on Earth, nor are they taking the fight against terrorism to PSN. Rather, they’ll be adding those to the 336 units that they already have to further their supercomputer research.
The PS3s will all be heading to the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, NY, where research into “high-def video processing and systems with brain-like properties” is being conducted. The Air Force will be using the massive system to “to determine the best fit for implementation of various applications,” which includes software specific to the PS3’s Cell Broadband Engine processor architecture.
Results from this sizable investment will determine if the Air Force can make use of related software for military purposes. Why the PS3? Its eight-processor cell can be found in other supercomputers, such as IBM‘s RoadRunner, at the Los Alamos National Library.
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Via InformationWeek
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