Pictured: The U.S. Air Force's PS3 Cluster Set-up

[JMcEntegart]

Oh, so THAT'S what 336 PS3s looks like.

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[kelewan]

Very cool.

 

[sunflier]

That's one heck of a LAN Party!!

 

[patrick_kbf]

So beautiful it brings a tear to my eye. Now if only I could afford it...

 

[hispeed120]

I wonder if they have cooling issues?

 

[christop]

Would 100 quad cpus be better? I don't think of power when it comes to ps3

 

[christop]

Sorry I see now why they used ps3 I had no idea of the power it has...

 

[SchizoFrog]

But can it play Crysis???

(Sorry... I just had to... )

 

[deadlockedworld]

SKYNET!

 

[deadlockedworld]

SKYNET!

 

[blingbling]

[citation][nom]schizofrog[/nom]But can it play Crysis??? (Sorry... I just had to... )[/citation]
OMG!!!

 

[meat81]

My Tax dollars at work...

 

[Guest]

that is one fine looking cluster

 

[TripGun]

I fail to see the practicality of this setup. True, the cell processor can move large amounts data, but I don't see it having the effectiveness of what a render farm could deliver. This seems to me as being a media recruiting machine, "come join us,look how cool we are".

 

[ssalim]

[citation][nom]schizofrog[/nom]But can it play Crysis??? (Sorry... I just had to... )[/citation]

God damn it! Will you (all of you) stop doing this childish shit?

 

[obsidian86]

forget crysis it aint on ps3 ,

so to revise "can it play crysis 2?"

 

[mlopinto2k1]

[citation][nom]TripGun[/nom]I fail to see the practicality of this setup. True, the cell processor can move large amounts data, but I don't see it having the effectiveness of what a render farm could deliver. This seems to me as being a media recruiting machine, "come join us,look how cool we are".[/citation]Do some research, you'll find your answer. A render farm made up of 2,200 NVIDIA cards would be nice but I don't think nearly as cost effective. Plus, this really smacks the other consoles in the face. Go Sony.

 

[megamanx00]

Your tax dollars at work

 

[neodude007]

I fail to see the point of this. Would it not take less power and be better to just use computers? Core i7s plus a range of video cards could do whatever PS3s could do better.
PS3 is not some godly computing powerhouse compared to PCs and nice video cards.

 

[jgiron]

But can it play Crysis??? (Sorry... I just had to... )

yes, but it won't play Super Mario Bros or Halo