PS3 Leads To Age Of The Petaflop
What do the Playstation 3 and the world’s fastest computer have in common? Only that they use the same components. IBM’s latest supercomputer, codenamed Roadrunner, will be able to make one thousand trillion calculations per second. It uses both supercomputer chips and the PS3 cell chip to produce these speeds.
According to the BBC, it will be used to keep track of nuclear weapons, but there’s no fun in that for ordinary computer users. It does mean that high performance computers can use this technology to get faster and faster. I wonder when this will trickle down to home computers?
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