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My favorite was the 33rd in line at the time which was made up of 1700 sony PS3s https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercom
by iancmceachern 3y ago
My favorite was the 33rd in line at the time which was made up of 1700 sony PS3s
https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomputer.amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2010-12-air-plays...
- Cacti 3y agoWhen the DoE claimed the PS3 could be a dual purpose munition, they weren’t kidding.
- PaulRobinson 3y agoSaddam Hussein did try to buy a load of PlayStations at some point.
- hulitu 3y agoHe also had WMDs. /s
- iancmceachern 3y agoAnd Anna Nicole married for love (Great line in the movie Shooter"
- Cockbrand 3y agoThey were more or less cousins, as they were both based on the PowerPC CPU architecture.
- porbelm 3y agoHowever the Sony Cell had just a PowerPC controlling core. The real magic, and why it was used in supercomputers at the time, is in its Stream cores; they were highly tailored for vector and floating point maths.