We recently told you about the United States Air Force buying 2,200 PS3 systems to either make some top-secret supercomputer or to have a killer multiplayer gaming session. Before they got the money cleared for the 2,200 systems, they had a smaller rig of 336 systems. And here's what it looks like.
Crazy. SFgate says that this rig was used for research on urban surveillance, and is located in Rome, New York. I don't know what that is, but I'm going to guess that that room is hot. And loud. And that if they are using these for gaming, that firmware update time would be a major bitch.
Imagine what it'll look like when they get the 2,200 installed.
[via Kotaku]
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10:40 AM on 12.09.2009
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Looks like my living room.
Apart from my living room only has one PS3 in it.
Oh..right.
http://www.physorg.com/news92674403.html
Notice that he said that 10k PS3s could challenge Blue as the fastest supercomputer.
;)
It looks like that, only with 2,199 more.
LOL! And one more lol just for good measure.
2. No need for firmware updates since they're liking not even running the PS3 OS on them but custom programs with Ubuntu or similar applications.
3. It's likely their desired purchase was all for old fat PS3s in order to run an alternative OS on them.
4. I can definitely get behind using the cell architect of the PS3 for high-speed recording and conversion processing of data being fed in real time from various video cameras. The cell architecture is perfect for such processing.
I wonder if they removed the Blu-Ray drives from the units (as they would have no need for them in a networked OS / cloud environment). 2200 Blu-Ray drives could upgarde a lot of PCs or be sold for some additional return on investiment via e-bay....