The USAF and the 1,700 PS3

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Twistedpixel on 01 February 2010

Farmageddon said:

Twistedpixel said:
They should have made a GPGPU cluster, because then they would have at least had bragging rights for being able to play Crysis on maximum settings.

Reality would then look so last-gen for them.

They could probably achieve 3-5* the watts per flop with a modern GPGPU architecture, which is why im surprised they didn't go down that route.

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joshin69 on 01 February 2010

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Yep i had the same thought.
"Didn't we have some fun, though? Remember when the platform was sliding into
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NJ5 on 01 February 2010

For applications which don't need much RAM per node or double-precision calculations, the PS3 is a very cheap way to get computing power.

Compare it with getting a Cell server directly from IBM, which surely costs more than $1000. Sure, the IBM server will have more RAM and a faster Cell, but for $299 you get a pretty good one already.

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