Air Force After Thousands of PlayStations?

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Atlanta, GA | Posted: December 9, 2009

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The U.S. Air Force has thousands of Sony PlayStation 3 consoles on its wish list this season, but the brass aren't waiting to play Call of Duty; they want to string the machines together to create a massive supercomputer. Professor David Bader, executive director of high performance computing at Georgia Tech, has researched the possibility of using PS3 clusters in aircraft monitoring and financial risk assessment. Source: ABC News

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  • Created By: Louise Russo
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  • Created On: Feb 9, 2010 - 4:20pm
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