In order to construct a research supercomputer, Air Force of US has recently announced to buy 2,200 PlayStation 3 game consoles of Sony.
Air Force plans to use these PlayStation 3 game consoles at its Research Laboratory’s information directorate in Rome, N.Y so that these new game consoles will work together with 336 current PlayStation 3s to conduct supercomputing research.
Thanks to the system, Air Force hopes that they will be able to determine the best fit for implementation of various applications specific to the PS3′s Cell Broadband Engine processor architecture. Moreover, the research will also hope to provide results of whether or not Cell Broadband Engine processor-derived hardware and software could be used in military systems.
Besides that, Air Force has also implemented testing a method of processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images, neuromorphic computing, building computers with brain-like properties and high-def video processing.
Sony PlayStation 3 has used eight-processor Cell to power these supercomputers of Air Force including IBM’s RoadRunner which has been considered as one of the two fastest supercomputers in the world.
This research has been awarded with $2 million by the Department of Defense. The researcher group has also discovered that multicore Xeon servers slower and more expensive than PS3s, and GPGPUs to be slower in some important types of calculations.
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