Friday, March 25, 2011

MC2 Post 984 Rome Wasn't Built in a Day Either, You Know.


Rome Coliseum




Image Playstation 3.

Rome, NY -- Computer scientists just up the Thruway at Rome’s Air Force Research Lab have assembled one of the world’s largest, fastest and cheapest supercomputers — and it’s made from PlayStation 3s.

1,716 of Them.


The Condor Station.


The Air Force calls the souped-up PlayStations the Condor Supercomputer and says it is among the 40 fastest computers in the world. The Condor went online late last year, and it will likely change the way the Air Force and the Air National Guard watch things on the ground.




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