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U.S. Air Force PS3 Cluster Computing Project Screwed By Sony

May 12, 2010

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by

ENDO-Mike

in Military

The Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York picked up 336 PS3 systems in 2009 and built itself a 53 teraFLOP processing cluster. Once completed as a proof of concept, Air Force researchers then scaled up by a factor of six and went in search of 2,200 more consoles(later scaled back to 1,700). The $663,000 contract was…