机能强大！美国空军拟采购2200台PS3组建超级计算机

leonhardt

美国政府采购网站数据显示，美国空军拟购买2,200台Sony PlayStation (PS) 3游戏机来打造研究用的超级计算机。 PS 3将用于美国空军研究实验室位于罗马的信息理事会，这些游戏机将和现有已用于执行超级计算机的336台PS 3整合成集群。美国空军将以这套系统“决定多套应用程序最适合的实作方式，”包括市售或自行开发的PS 3 Cell宽带引擎处理器架构的专用软件。研究将协助空军判断Cell宽带引擎处理器的软硬件将用于军事系统何处最恰当。

美国空军已利用该集群来进行多套雷达图像处理成高分辨率复合图片的方式测试（称为合成孔径雷达影像组成）、高分辨率图像处理和“神经运算”。

其他超级计算机也是采用PS 3 8核Cell芯片，包括位于Los Alamos国家实验室的全球第二快的IBM RoadRunner。

六月间美国国防部颁发200万美元奖金给该研究单位的《高效能运算现代化计划》，用于鼓励超级计算机研究、开发、测试和评估。这也是继原有丛双的11.8万美元后追加的补助。

在获奖前，该信息理事会的进阶运算架构团队也曾寻找混合系统的另类组态及可能性，但发现多核Xeon服务器比PS3来得贵而慢，而GPU在某些计算上又比较慢。

美国空军实验室信息理事会每年在协同、网络、信息安全及计算机模型的研发经费高达7亿美元。



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US Air Force Buying 2200 PlayStation 3s

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thekop

這是什麼東東?
地球要變火星了?
還是這個才是火星?

中微小

不是说IBM放弃CELL处理器的后续投入了么……

那2200个光驱怎么办……

timestrom

米国军工科技向11区娱乐业低头么....

迷失的风儿

这是真的吗？ 不敢相信，假新闻可要注明哦。。。

asuro

以前听过类似的消息,不过数量没这么多

leonhardt

真的假的誰知道呢.............求翻譯
The U.S. Air Force is looking to buy 2,200 Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles to built out a research supercomputer, according to an document posted on the federal government's procurement Web site.
The PlayStation 3s will be used at the Air Force Research Laboratory's information directorate in Rome, N.Y., where they will be added to an existing cluster of 336 PlayStation 3s being used to conduct supercomputing research.


The Air Force will use the system to "to determine the best fit for implementation of various applications," including commercial and internally developed software specific to the PS3's Cell Broadband Engine processor architecture. The research will help the Air Force decide where Cell Broadband Engine processor-derived hardware and software could be used in military systems.
The Air Force has used the cluster to test a method of processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and "neuromorphic computing," or building computers with brain-like properties.

The PlayStation 3's eight-processor Cell powers other supercomputers, including the world's second-fastest, IBM's RoadRunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

In June, the Department of Defense awarded $2 million for this research under its High Performance Computing Modernization Program, the DOD's arm for supercomputing research, development, test, and evaluation. That follows an initial investment of $118,000 on the original cluster.

Before it won the research award in 2008, the information directorate's advanced computing architectures team considered alternative configurations and the possibility of a hybrid system, but found multicore Xeon servers slower and more expensive than PS3s, and GPGPUs to be slower in some important types of calculations.

The Air Force Research Laboratory's information directorate spends about $700 million annually on R&D, in areas such as collaboration, networking, cybersecurity, and computer modeling.



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糖水菠萝

IBM不是停止对CELL的研发了吗?也就是说以后的45NM 32NM的CELL基本不可能了.

anchfiend

真的假的誰知道呢.............求翻譯
The U.S. Air Force is looking to buy 2,200 Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles to built out a research supercomputer, according to an document posted on the federal go ...
leonhardt 发表于 2009-11-25 04:39

ration required).

The U.S. Air Force is looking to buy 2,200 Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles to built out a research supercomputer, according to an document posted on the federal government's procurement Web site.
The PlayStation 3s will be used at the Air Force Research Laboratory's information directorate in Rome, N.Y., where they will be added to an existing cluster of 336 PlayStation 3s being used to conduct supercomputing research.
根據一份張貼在聯邦政府的採購網站的文件, 美國空軍有意購買 2200台索尼PlayStation 3遊戲機的內核來構建一台研究用的超級計算機.
買來的PS3將被鈼配到羅馬，紐約的美國空軍研究實驗室的信息部，添加到現有用來進行超級計算研究的PlayStation 3群集。

The Air Force will use the system to "to determine the best fit for implementation of various applications," including commercial and internally developed software specific to the PS3's Cell Broadband Engine processor architecture. The research will help the Air Force decide where Cell Broadband Engine processor-derived hardware and software could be used in military systems.
The Air Force has used the cluster to test a method of processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and "neuromorphic computing," or building computers with brain-like properties.
空軍將使用該系統“確定各種程序的最佳應用”，包括商業和集中在PS3的Cell寬帶引擎處理器架構上的內部開發的軟件。這項研究將有助於空軍決定Cell寬帶引擎處理器衍生的硬件和軟件在軍事系統上的應用。
空軍使用的群集測試一種將雷達圖像合成為更高分辨率的圖像的方法（稱為合成孔徑雷達圖像形成），高清晰視頻處理，以及“神經形態的計算，”或建立與腦相似的電腦。

The PlayStation 3's eight-processor Cell powers other supercomputers, including the world's second-fastest, IBM's RoadRunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
PS3的8個處理器具有比其他超級計算機更強的處理能力，包括世界上第二快，在洛斯阿拉莫斯國家實驗室，IBM公司的RoadRunner.

In June, the Department of Defense awarded $2 million for this research under its High Performance Computing Modernization Program, the DOD's arm for supercomputing research, development, test, and evaluation. That follows an initial investment of $118,000 on the original cluster.
今年6月，國防部以高性能計算現代化計劃，美國國防部的手臂的超級計算研究，開發，測試和評價的名義撥出200萬美元予這項研究。初步投資為在原始群集的118 000美元。

Before it won the research award in 2008, the information directorate's advanced computing architectures team considered alternative configurations and the possibility of a hybrid system, but found multicore Xeon servers slower and more expensive than PS3s, and GPGPUs to be slower in some important types of calculations.
在2008年獲得研究獎之前，信息總部的進階計算體系結構小組審議了其他的配置以及混合動力系統的可行性，但發現多核Xeon服務器慢加上比PS3貴，而且 GPGPUs在某些重要演算上較慢。

The Air Force Research Laboratory's information directorate spends about $700 million annually on R&D, in areas such as collaboration, networking, cybersecurity, and computer modeling.
空軍研究實驗室的信息部每年花大約 7億美元在聯網，網絡安全和計算機建模等領域的合作和研發。

原來自己動手譯和用google譯是一樣的
譯出來修改是會改到雙目流血... Orz

raistlinc

很假啊，这个也太搞了
有游戏机

fath

索尼一向的宣传策略 像之前那个萨达姆购买PS2 使用其芯片安装到导弹上一样....

Cerebi

这样索尼就不会亏本了，果然军事方面是很赚钱的，恩...

gensaya

这是真的吗？ 不敢相信，假新闻可要注明哦。。。
迷失的风儿 发表于 2009-11-24 11:50 PM

这个明显是索尼的广告啊

a234504904

美国的计算机技术比不上日本么...这种高科技的东西还要拿日本的游戏机来弄呀？？~~那也太挫啦···

shinichi

明显骚尼的广告- -
话说PS3的处理器性能是惨不忍睹的说- -

荒牧狂牛

这么多游戏机,给美国空军业余娱乐的吧....