Tag: force
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U.S. Air Force PS3 Cluster Computing Project Screwed By Sony
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…
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If owning a gun makes you a right wing extremist
what would this make you? From Gunbroker: This is the Centerpiece of the Museum Collection we are liquidating! This beautiful bird started life as a U.S.A.F. B-38B practice nuclear weapon (the drop model, used for target practice, NOT the lightweight “loading practice” model), the twin of the live B-61, which is still in use, carried…
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Cost of outfitting a soldier
The costs on this chart obviously aren’t adjusted for inflation. Interesting though nevertheless.