Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's

The Air Force's Research Lab in Rome, NY. has one of the cheapest supercomputers ever made, and best of all over 3,000 of your friends can play Tekken on it. The computer is made from 1,716 PlayStation 3s linked together, and is used to process images from spy planes. From the article: "The Air Force calls the souped-up PlayStations the Condor Supercomputer and says it is among the 40 fastest computers in the world. The Condor went online late last year, and it will likely change the way the Air Force and the Air National Guard watch things on the ground." We covered this story back in December when the Condor first went online.

Comments

old news is old

[drkamil]

we already know this, and we already discussed it AGAIN when sony deactivated the otheros option...

Re:Fuck you sony

[bongey]

goatse link above

Re:Upgrades.

[sribe]

I would worry more about Sony lawyers. They have got to be salivating at the Air Force's bankroll and trying to come up with a reason to sue.

I don't think you're kidding, but OMG, I nearly fell out of my chair laughing when I read that. Seriously, unless they're delusional psychopaths[1], they're not salivating, they're shitting their pants at the thought of being sued by the Air Force. You don't sell something to the US government with certain advertised capabilities, then take away those capabilities, then sue the US government for using them. Instead, you get sued by the US government until you beg for mercy.

[1] This is a possibility.

Re:Sony is the US enemy

[webmistressrachel]

Fuckin' Goatse in the library again!!!

This is just another of those occasions when you WISH for a better content filter system... in the same library, when you try to look at a little bit of sleaze like Facebook you are told "Fortinet blah blah forget it".

Re:Upgrades.

[Anonymous Coward]

bladecenter qs22 starts at $9995 for two processor 3.2 ghz.

Granted nobody is supposed to pay MSRP but even that price is order of magnitude and a multiple over PS3 retail

Apostrophe abuse

[Anonymous Coward]

Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's what? What is this object that belongs to the PS3 that the supercomputer was made from?

Re:Not updating over internet

[Kryptonian Jor-El]

Yeah but they were sold under the pretense that they could repair and expand, but every current and future PS3 cannot have its firmware downgraded, and doesnt have access to OtherOS (legally at least) So once they run out of spares, theyre boned

Grammar

[mdsharpe]

Supercomputer Made From PS3's what?