The U.S. Air Force has recently announced a new supercomputer project called the Condor Cluster. What makes this project unique is the fact that the cluster consists of PlayStation 3’s… 1760 to be exact. Along with 168 GPUs and 84 coordinating servers, this supercomputer is capable of performing 500 TFLOPS (trillion floating point operations per second). This makes the cluster the fastest interactive computer within the Department of Defense.
Designed by the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Condor Cluster cost over $2 million, which is an estimated 5% to 10% of what it would have costed with standard “off-the-shelf” components. In addition, this project is projected to use approximately a tenth of the power as other comparable supercomputers.
Interestingly, the project only used older PS3’s so that Linux could be loaded using the “Other OS” feature unique to that generation.
Source: Gamasutra
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