Posts tagged supercomputer 
US Air Force to purchase 2200 more PS3s
You may laugh at the "It Only Does Everything" ads but those of us with a cot in the Joystiq Bunker understand that they're a sign that the end is nigh. Why? Because the US military is looking to make a super computer made up of 2500 interconnected PS3 systems -- wait, isn't that how Skynet is made...
PS3's Cell processor helps locate oil
Besides the Roadrunner and our beloved PS3, the Cell processor can now add another task it can do into its repertoire. Repsol, one of the world's ten largest oil companies, is employing the use the of the Cell processor, more specifically the PowerXCell 8i variant on a BladeCenter QS22 computer, to ...
IBM creates new supercomputer with Cell processor
The Cell processor, known as the heart of the PS3, is being used every day in rather extraordinary situations. IBM has crafted yet another supercomputer, codenamed Roadrunner, which runs at a record-setting petaflop speed. (A petaflop is the equivalent of one thousand trillion calculations per secon...
The PS3 takes the cape of a supercomputer once more
Like Clark Kent, it's time again for the PS3 to discard its nerd-goggles and rip that button-down shirt off to reveal what lies beneath: a superhero. Or a supercomputer, if you felt the comparison went a bit far. A professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Guarav Khanna, bought eigh...
Supercomputer systems replaced by PS3
Cell's immense power is largely undisputed by the scientific community. Folding@Home is just one example of how Cell and the PS3 can compute massive amounts of data for the sake of scientific research. An astrophysicist recently linked eight PS3 systems together and was able to compute the same amou...
