US Air Force Buys 2200 PS3s to be Used with Linux

 
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United States Air Force will buy new 2200 Sony PlayStation3 to be used in its supercomputing cluster.

Last year, the Air Force purchased more than 300 PS3s for testing purposes of the Cell Broadband Engine. The systems are now located at Air Force Research Laboratory's information directorate in Rome, N.Y. and they work with an in-house developed Linux-based OS.

Air Force documents revealed the PS3 supercomputers have previously been used to test methods of processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images, known as Back Projection Synthetic Aperture Radar Imager formation.

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Very cool. What's your source for this news?

Submitted by Tony Yarusso (not verified) on Fri, 04/12/2009 - 00:40.

Hi Tony,
There is a solicitation document issued by United states Department of the Air Force (you can see it here: http://bit.ly/7GltKS). The devices will be used to expand an existing PS3-based supercomputer that runs an in-house version of Linux (http://bit.ly/6GN7y6)

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/12/2009 - 16:57.

Wow, this sounds ultra cool. The processor of the PS3 is an incredible invention. Can anyone imagine that this "nano-processor" only measures 40 nm (nm = 1 / 1000000000 m). And with Linux on board, one could imagine the possibilities.

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Submitted by saif on Sat, 16/01/2010 - 16:00.

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