The Air Force uses 2,000 PS3′s for “dirt cheap” computing

May 14th, 2010 | by Neil Barton | Posted in technology | Comments Off

“the 500 TeraFLOPS Heterogeneous Cluster powered by PS3s but connected to subcluster heads of dual-quad Xeons with multiple GPGPUs.”

Just as the Air Force was completing their project:

“The Air Force team ordered the hardware, spent days unboxing it and imaging each unit to run Linux, and then… Sony removed the Linux install option a couple months later. (One can only imagine what happened to those 2,000 PS3 controllers and other unneeded accessories.)”

Very interesting article.

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