Originally Posted by Mistawes
Sorry for the delay! Also, getting a decent question ain't easy..
How many PS3's did the US Navy have before deciding to expand it's PS3 supercomputer program?
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It had non before but.....
In November 2010 the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) created a powerful supercomputer by connecting together 1,760 Sony PS3s which include 168 separate graphical processing units and 84 coordinating servers in a parallel array capable of performing 500 trillion floating-point operations per second (500 TFLOPS).[314] As built the Condor Cluster was the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world and would be used to analyse high definition satellite imagery