US Airforce builds the Condor Supercomputer

[HOZ]

500 trillion operations per second! 400 terabytes of info! Top 40 fastest computer in the world.

How? By linking together 1,716 PlayStation 3s.

This will provide analysts with new levels of detail from the pictures gathered on long surveillance flights by spy planes.

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As impressive as the Condor is, it won’t be for long. Barnell envisions integrating smartphone processors into high-performance computing, putting the power of a Condor into a small surveillance drone the size of your fist, something weighing less than a pound and using the energy of a standard light bulb.

[doozwimp]

1,716 Playstations? Why not 5 million?

[fanman]

Condor? Isn't it called SkyNet?

[Jackpot_Smooth]

I wonder when angry birds will be available for it.

[worth]

Wonder if they got a bulk deal.

[BloodFetish]

Yeah, but will it play Crysis?

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by BloodFetish

Yeah, but will it play Crysis?

Not on high resolution.

[Locke]

But can it tell the time?

[SebC]

Does it know Toronto is not a US city? (Yet?)