US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supercomputer (2010)

Re:US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supe... by solardev on Friday July 22, 2022 @12:22PM (#32193785)

> There are two groups of people who want TFlops of SIMD compute. Supercomputer groups, and video gamers.

And crypto people, unfortunately :(

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Re:US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supe... by ceeplusplus on Friday July 22, 2022 @02:23PM (#32195403)

Eh, Eth miners want memory bandwidth, which is increasingly no longer correlated to compute power.

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Re:US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supe... by cowtools on Friday July 22, 2022 @12:31PM (#32193901)

Depends on Proof-Of-Work method.

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Re:US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supe... by klodolph on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:04PM (#32194364)

I mean, it’s also true that not all supercomputer groups want TFLOPS of SIMD. Some video gamers are happy with consoles made in the 1990s. Why single out the crypto people?

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Re:US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supe... by freemint on Friday July 22, 2022 @04:10PM (#32196550)

90s console very much also had SIMD it was just in more fixed function hardware, DSPs or the like.

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