The Air Force Research Laboratory has created the fastest supercomputer of all time by putting together 1,760 Playstation Three’s. The Department of Defense is calling it The Condor Cluster. This device is so powerful and so fast that it has the ability to process 500 trillion floating point operations per second. WOW. It also has 168 GPU’s and 84 servers. Compared to a supercomputer built like this one from scratch, The Condor Cluster only costs about 5%-10% of the cost at 2 million dollars. Interestingly, The Condor Cluster only consumes about 10% of the power of a computer of such magnitude made from scratch.
With The Condor Cluster the military will be able to look at high resolution satellite imagery, radar and very possibly extra-terrestrial life. It’s amazing where our technology is going. Now we are creating super computers using Playstation Gaming Consoles.
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