SuperComputer made out of PS3’s
The U.S is building a super computer out of Ps3’s;
the Air Force purchasing department gets some odd requests from time to time, but we’d love to have seen the grin on the face of the officer tasked with procuring some 1,700 Playstation 3s for a USAF facility in Rome, NY.
Contrary to what people may believe the PS3’s are not for playing but for working they will be used to create a super computer;
the facility — an Air Force research lab — will join them into a parallel-computing cluster that, when complete, will number well over 2,000 PS3s.
So whats this super computer for?
they’ll be attempting to simulate the way the human brain processes information and how it pulls off the remarkably difficult task of recognizing the content of images.
“Humans can routinely do these things, but a computer struggles to do it,” the facility’s computing director Mark Barnell told Stars and Stripes. “In a general sense, we are interested in making it autonomous.”
Ps3’s will be used to create the super computer because they are a lot cheaper and much more environmentally friendly then the usual super computer.
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