US Department of Defense stocked PlayStation 3
The US Department of Defense ordered 2,200 PlayStation 3 consoles. For a supercomputer. It seems that the available military cluster of 336 PS3, working under Linux, was not enough.
The calculation of the warriors is simple. A 1U server with two 3.2 GHz processors can cost up to $ 8,000, while two consoles will cost about $ 600. The performance difference between the PS3 processor and the 3.2 GHz IBM Cell is only 50GFLOPS. And the craftsmen who can use an order of magnitude cheaper consoles are no less efficiently expensive servers, there will be in the US Department of Defense.
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The calculation of the warriors is simple. A 1U server with two 3.2 GHz processors can cost up to $ 8,000, while two consoles will cost about $ 600. The performance difference between the PS3 processor and the 3.2 GHz IBM Cell is only 50GFLOPS. And the craftsmen who can use an order of magnitude cheaper consoles are no less efficiently expensive servers, there will be in the US Department of Defense.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/76847/
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