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Forums - Sony - US Air Force to Buy 2200 PS3's to conduct SUPER Computer Research!!

Sardauk on 23 November 2009

Next SONY PR : A boost of 6500 new PSN users in one day !



 

Evan Wells (Uncharted 2): I think the differences that you see between any two games has much more to do with the developer than whether it’s on the Xbox or PS3.

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Sardauk on 23 November 2009
darthdevidem01 said:
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.

Its much cheaper I think......the PS3 isn't cheap, but doing what you are suggesting may require research, R&D and so on

It IS cheap. 300 Euros a node + free linux. IT is a great way to do grid computing.



 

Evan Wells (Uncharted 2): I think the differences that you see between any two games has much more to do with the developer than whether it’s on the Xbox or PS3.

starterman1989 on 23 November 2009

I suppose the military is interested in old fat PS3s with Linux? It'd be funny if one day we hear the news that military research can no longer continue since some of their PS3s are no longer functioning and they can't buy more.



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Icyedge on 23 November 2009
starterman1989 said:
I suppose the military is interested in old fat PS3s with Linux? It'd be funny if one day we hear the news that military research can no longer continue since some of their PS3s are no longer functioning and they can't buy more.

Or an ad on TV: buying all old PS3 only at www.sellyourps3forresearch.com, lol.



tedsteriscool on 23 November 2009

It's all a plan by M$. They're making the Air Force buy PS3s in an attempt to make Sony go bankrupt!



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dandd on 23 November 2009

This is not good news for Sony. All the money is made on software and I doubt the Air Force is going to buy many games to go with all of these systems.



Crystalchild on 23 November 2009

We WANT YOU! to buy a PS3. xD

 

poor Sony, they'll loose Money on the US Airforce, but hey - this could be a nice add. :D



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iBlah on 23 November 2009

oh noes, soon other goverments will follow the suit and use PS3 for all other stuff and make sony loses shit load of money.