Daily Archives: April 26, 2011

The Air Force is Loaning out its PS3 Super-Computer

When its not crunching data brought back by spy plane missions, the US Air Force’s PlayStation 3 super-computer (nicknamed “Condor”) is now being loaned out to universities so they can crunch slightly less dangerous data. One of those institutions is … Continue reading

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Defense Department discusses new Sony PlayStation supercomputer | cleveland.com

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Blu-ray function is disabled, so no, you wont find Defense Department engineers on the job watching “Avatar” in high def while running classified satellite images through their new supercomputer that harnesses banks of Sony PlayStation … Continue reading

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