US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @09:02PM from the quick-who-knows-a-good-ps3-flight-sim dept.

bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."

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Loss for Sony? by SlothDead · 2009-11-24 21:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

Since Sony's strategy (like Microsoft's) is to sell the consoles below production costs and make money on the games I guess that they are now pretty angry about organizations buying PS3s solely for computing...
Black Friday Deals! by upto0013 · 2009-11-24 22:11 · Score: 5, Funny

They should wait for Black Friday, nobody is going to fight the Air Force for a doorbuster...
Re:Wow by TheDarAve · 2009-11-24 23:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Its the Air Force, it'd be an Airwolf cluster.