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In the US Air Force has a powerful supercomputer, assembled from the whole PlayStation 3
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In the research laboratory the US Air Force in 2010, was created a supercomputer called "Condor Cluster system" of the PlayStation 3. The supercomputer is located in Rome, NY, and is reported to its computing power is much higher than that all other interactive computers of the Ministry of Defense.
Computer processors built from 1760 PlayStation 3 and 168 general-purpose processors. With its huge capacity Condor has a relatively low cost. It can calculate 500000000000000 floating point operations per second (TFLOPS), and that the Ministry of Defence cost only $ 2 million due to the low cost of the PlayStation 3.
Mark Burnell, head of the department of computer technology the US Air Force, said that "the value of the Condor is 10-20 times less than its full equivalent." For their work Condor also uses 1/10 comparable with him a computer, made by standard techniques, which gives the right to call its "green».
via factroom.ru
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