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JoeTheBro on 24 February 2013
maxnyc said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3e6Wy19jbo


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Alby_da_Wolf on 24 February 2013

Damn, all the possible jokes about Saddam's rockets and PS2 have already been written!!!



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Andrespetmonkey on 24 February 2013
Screamapillar said:
maxnyc said:

SOny has single-handedly advanced the notion of a "supercomputer" for years now. A turbo-charged supercomputer on steroids, the ps4 will mark the pinnacles of graphics and high-end computng horsepower. There's no doubt that the pS4 will makr the dramatic rise of Sony as they reclaim the supercomputer market for themselves. It's rumored that the US govt will be purchasing millions of ps4's to run their top-secret servers and do all their supercomputing and domestic spying. For reference please see this historic documentary- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH2w2l1JTs4


Hmm...yeah except that my PC has far higher specs than the PS4.  So... I'm advancing the notion of the supercomputer and leaving Sony in the dust?

PS4 = more power for less cost. Duh.



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Deyon on 24 February 2013

I'm not surprised by this rumor. The same thing happened with the PlayStation 3

In 2010 the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) created a powerful supercomputer by connecting together 1,760 Sony PS3s which include 168 separate graphical processing units and 84 coordinating servers in a parallel array capable of performing 500 trillion floating-point operations per second (500 TFLOPS). As built the Condor Cluster was the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world and would be used to analyse high definition satellite imagery.



Netyaroze on 24 February 2013
Deyon said:

I'm not surprised by this rumor. The same thing happened with the PlayStation 3

In 2010 the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) created a powerful supercomputer by connecting together 1,760 Sony PS3s which include 168 separate graphical processing units and 84 coordinating servers in a parallel array capable of performing 500 trillion floating-point operations per second (500 TFLOPS). As built the Condor Cluster was the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world and would be used to analyse high definition satellite imagery.


This won't happen again. Because the Cell was in 2006 really something else and the PS3 offered a Cell for 500 while IBM offered a slightly better Cell based systeml for 5-6 times that. The Cell was an excellent Supercomputer Prozessor and Sony made a huge loss while selling it and GPU Supercomputers were not known. IBM even complained that Sony cut into their Servermarket The Cell offered a good balance of Cpu and Gpu. Later came GPGPU and made GPUs interesting. 2-4 PS4 for 400-500 Dollars gives you less bang for the buck than a Geforce Titan or Tesla Card.

 

We won't see any PS4 Supercomputers because this time you can get better and cheaper GPUs and CPUs for Supercomputer. The Cell was an exception.



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crissindahouse on 24 February 2013

hacking the govt will be much easier then



Andrespetmonkey on 24 February 2013
crissindahouse said:
hacking the govt will be much easier then


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Ljink96 on 24 February 2013

Dude, why would the US government use a game console to run their top secret servers? Sony just got hacked remember? That wouldn't look good on the US's part. There are computers that they use that are the fastest computers in the universe. Not China, nor Russia has a faster computer than the US. We're not going to use a PS4 for server security. Any game company can make a super computer game console, it has to be their will to make it. Any game company can call up IBM and ask for the most powerful thing in history but power comes at a cost.



maxnyc on 24 February 2013
JoeTheBro said:
maxnyc said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3e6Wy19jbo


How many times must you post this?



Screamapillar on 24 February 2013
Andrespetmonkey said:
Screamapillar said:
maxnyc said:

SOny has single-handedly advanced the notion of a "supercomputer" for years now. A turbo-charged supercomputer on steroids, the ps4 will mark the pinnacles of graphics and high-end computng horsepower. There's no doubt that the pS4 will makr the dramatic rise of Sony as they reclaim the supercomputer market for themselves. It's rumored that the US govt will be purchasing millions of ps4's to run their top-secret servers and do all their supercomputing and domestic spying. For reference please see this historic documentary- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH2w2l1JTs4


Hmm...yeah except that my PC has far higher specs than the PS4.  So... I'm advancing the notion of the supercomputer and leaving Sony in the dust?

PS4 = more power for less cost. Duh.

In comparison to what?  On it's face, PS4 is a mid-spec gaming PC.  Impressive for a game console, certainly, but by no means competing with high-end gaming PCs. 



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