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they already have
When they said "It only does everything" they meant this too!
darthdevidem01 said:Air Force To Expand PlayStation-Based Supercomputer
The cluster of PlayStation 3 consoles is already being used for research into high-def video processing and systems with brain-like properties.
By J. Nicholas Hoover
The PlayStation 3s will be used at the Air Force Research Laboratory's information directorate in Rome, N.Y., where they will be added to an existing cluster of 336 PlayStation 3s being used to conduct supercomputing research.
The Air Force will use the system to "to determine the best fit for implementation of various applications," including commercial and internally developed software specific to the PS3's Cell Broadband Engine processor architecture. The research will help the Air Force decide where Cell Broadband Engine processor-derived hardware and software could be used in military systems.
The Air Force has used the cluster to test a method of processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and "neuromorphic computing," or building computers with brain-like properties. The PlayStation 3's eight-processor Cell powers other supercomputers, including the world's second-fastest, IBM's RoadRunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In June, the Department of Defense awarded $2 million for this research under its High Performance Computing Modernization Program, the DOD's arm for supercomputing research, development, test, and evaluation. That follows an initial investment of $118,000 on the original cluster. Before it won the research award in 2008, the information directorate's advanced computing architectures team considered alternative configurations and the possibility of a hybrid system, but found multicore Xeon servers slower and more expensive than PS3s, and GPGPUs to be slower in some important types of calculations. The Air Force Research Laboratory's information directorate spends about $700 million annually on R&D, in areas such as collaboration, networking, cybersecurity, and computer modeling. http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/linux/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221900487 _________________ so HIs ROYAL Highness Ken kutaragi was right all along, T3H CELL is invincible!!!! |
to all the haters out there
You just got crow. The airforce went with the ps3 after finding it the optimal solution.
This is good with all the repostings of the article about ibm stopping cell production. If they'd only cared to read it was only the current type of cell and ibm was going to keep using cell in future projects as a integrated part... ofcourse people ignore that. Anyways - this is good... Well except it's going to cost sony money XD
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| aragod said: Never thought Skynet was a PS3 network. |
This FTW
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Networks and development... riiiiight.
Liars. They just wanna play SF IV and Uncharted 2... for free, with an army budget to cover that.
That sucks for Sony. cause i don't think they plan on buying blu-rays or games to go with them
Why don't they save themselves the money and just build servers with multiple Cell BE's rather than wasting it on buying actual PS3's then losing performance by clustering?
@Staude: Maybe you should have read closer. They ARE discontinuing Cell development. They ARE NOT re-using the Cell in future projects, they are re-using ASPECTS of the Cell. Things they learned from using the Cell architecture will carry over but the new products will NOT be Cell variants or Cell successors nor will they have Cells in them.
| nightsurge said: Why don't they save themselves the money and just build servers with multiple Cell BE's rather than wasting it on buying actual PS3's then losing performance by clustering? @Staude: Maybe you should have read closer. They ARE discontinuing Cell development. They ARE NOT re-using the Cell in future projects, they are re-using ASPECTS of the Cell. Things they learned from using the Cell architecture will carry over but the new products will NOT be Cell variants or Cell successors nor will they have Cells in them. |
Guess you don't know much about building supercomputers and cluster networks... Cluster will allways come cheaper than building one supercomputer (or even several that would be required for that task). That is the single reason why they do that.
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Do they buy Slims ? Or the old one. I saw a lot of pictures with PS3 Phat server parks but never a Slim Server park. Even if they wont buy any games 2200 Consoles and every console makes 40 Dollars loss. Then its just a 9k loss but great publicity. Because if you hear that the US Airforce is buying PS3s to make complex calculations and the Xeon was the weak and the Roadrunner has Cells in it too. That all is just like an advertisment and the minor loss is not as bad because you cant buy such a publicity.
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