| Ljink96 said: 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. |
PSN was hacked, this has nothing to do with the console's computing power. And also the hacking of PS3 has nothing to do with its computing power. BTW they won't even run Sony OS or games on them, but they'll mod and hack them to use an OS suitable for supercomputing applications. And the supercomputer most probably won't be directly reachable from internet.
About other people mentioning PS4 not offering the breakthrough PS3, with the Cell, did: it all depends on how much Sony, taking initial losses on HW, will allow to save on a given amount of computing power compared to buying it from traditional producers of supercomputers or nodes to build them.
Anyhow this is just a rumour, US govt will decide only when it will know how much extra computing power PS4 will initially offer at a loss, if any, or at least charging a profit margin lower than competing solutions.
