Playstation supercomputer
In related news, The US Department of Defense said it plans to buy another 2,200 Playstation 3s to complement its military supercomputer cluster which already uses 336 PS3 systems.
The army reckons this is something of a cost saving move as a single 3.2 GHz cell processor is only capable of delivering some 200 GFLOPS, whereas the Sony PS3 configuration can blast out around 150 GFLOPS, resulting in an approximate tenfold cost difference per GFLOP. This makes Sony's PS3 a particularly good fit for the military's HPC applications.
Unfortunately for America's soldiers, there will be no playing of either America's Army or any other game on the machines which run a proprietary Linux-based operating system.
