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 CELL finally put to good use
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locopuyo

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CELL finally put to good use - Jun 09, 2008 16:11

An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/09/technology/09petaflops.php
UnluckyOne

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RE: CELL finally put to good use - Jun 09, 2008 16:18
Pity the military is using it. Would rather see all that processing power put to another use (such as medical). Calculating what happens in the first nano-seconds of a nuclear explosion doesn' t help too many people.
< Message edited by UnluckyOne -- 9 Jun 08 8:20:57 >
locopuyo

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RE: CELL finally put to good use - Jun 09, 2008 17:26
they are using it for non-military stuff first, then eventually they' re going to move it to a secret location and do military stuff.
Agent Ghost

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RE: CELL finally put to good use - Jun 09, 2008 17:28
They' ll be able to measure their killing power in peta flops.
mastachefbkw

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RE: CELL finally put to good use - Jun 10, 2008 03:23


An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.
So does this make the PS3 a military SUPAH COMPUTAH!?
Eddie_the_Hated

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RE: CELL finally put to good use - Jun 10, 2008 05:50
No, but I hear this one can guide terrorist rockets... oh wait, no... deja-vu. My bad.

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