The Department of Defense is buying 2,200 PS3 consoles to upgrade one of their supercomputers, currently a linux cluster of 336 PS3s being used by the USAF. Sony sells the system at loss to make their profit on the comeback, [You ever turn tricks for a new GTA game? I have.] so these can be used to build economical Linux supercomputers like the Warhawk Server Cluster. How much money does it save? According to the DoD’s Justification Review Document, about ninety freakin’ percent:
With respect to cell processors, a single 1U server configured with two 3.2GHz cell processors can cost up to $8K while two Sony PS3s cost approximately $600. Though a single 3.2 GHz cell processor can deliver over 200 GFLOPS, whereas the Sony PS3 configuration delivers approximately 150 GFLOPS, the approximately tenfold cost difference per GFLOP makes the Sony PS3 the only viable technology for HPC applications. [arstechnica]
That was a fancy way of saying, “BOOM, HEADSHOT!”
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I remember when Biggie Smalls used to come to my pool parties. He used to do the best belly GFLOPS in the world. I miss you, man.
Besides, the Air Force loves being able to watch ‘Up’ on Blu-Ray.
I was wondering why Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy consisted of aerial ATV tricks
Dear Air Force, could I have one to replace my recently crashed one? In return, I can show you how you can use Snake to solve Afghanistan in less than 20 hours.