US Air Force to buy 300x Sony PS3
March 9th, 2008 by Annkur
US Air Force has reportedly put in an application to source 300 Sony Playstation-3 40Gb consoles. No they aren’t planning a mega gaming event, instead these consoles will be used to test the robust Cell processor and its military applications.
According to the filing the PS3 happens to offer the most economical cell processor that meets their requirements. “The Air Force Research Laboratory is conducting a technology assessment of certain cell processors. The processors in the Sony PlayStation 3 are the only brand on the market that utilizes the specific cell processor characteristics needed for this program at an acceptable cost”.
About the PS3 Cell Processor:
The Cell processor which was developed by Sony, IBM and Toshiba. This processor has a main CPU, called the PPU and several (six for the PS3) special compute engines, called SPUs available for raw computation. Moreover, each SPU performs vector operations, which implies that it can compute on multiple data, in a single step. Finally, its incredibly low cost makes it very attractive as a scientific computing node, that is part of a cluster. Read
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Categories: Weird or not? | Tags: army, playstation 3, ps3, us army
That picture is totally shopped, I can tell by some of the pixels and having seen many shops in my day
Yeah the image is just an illustration – Its not a part of the story -
loll.. via joystiq.. via ps3fanboy.. via digg.. oh.. theres the source. I was wondering if I’d find a real source.
@dave lol good you found it … Next time perhaps I would make things easier by posting the end source in the story aswell