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作者: yimemari    時間: 2010-12-14 08:19 AM     標題: 美軍超級電腦 1760台PS3打造

美國空軍最近使用近2000台日本Sony公司出品的PlayStation 3（PS3）電玩遊戲主機，組裝出一台適用於軍事任務的超級電腦「兀鷹」（Condor），目的是要製造取代傳統科技、又符合成本效益的環保電腦。

成本較一般超級電腦少20倍

英國每日電訊報13日報導，這台新超級電腦是在紐約州的美國空軍研究實驗室（AFRL）內，由1760台PS3遊戲主機打造而成，運算速度要比一般筆記型電腦快上5萬倍。據信「兀鷹」是全世界排名第34的超級電腦，可執行包括人工智慧研究、模式辨認偵測（pattern recognition detection）及分析監控系統中的大量影像等任務，科學家可利用其精密運算能力，拍攝更清晰的太空照片，更準確地辨識太空中的飛行物體。

「兀鷹」包含3000多個部件，和近10公里長纜線，但整個系統用於運作和冷卻的電量，遠比一般超級電腦低。AFRL高效能運算中心負責人巴奈爾表示，「兀鷹」和其他超級電腦不同之處，在於可在閒置時按指示進入「睡眠」模式，以達節能效果。巴奈爾表示，「兀鷹」系統總造價約為200萬美元（約台幣6005萬元），可節省10倍到20倍的成本，耗電量更不到其他超級電腦的10分之1。「兀鷹」運算能力遠超出美國國防部目前使用中的其他互動式超級電腦。

Cell BE晶片 每秒可完成2560億次浮點運算

美軍之所以選擇PS主機，是這款遊戲機使用Cell BE晶片，它可大幅加速多媒體應用。Cell BE晶片是IBM、Toshiba和Sony合作開發的多重處理微處理器晶片，有2.5億個電晶體，執行速度超過4GHz，在適當條件下，每秒可完成2560億次浮點運算。

國軍也可以試著把XBOX改造成超級電腦看看.....
趕快回收中山室的電動遊樂器

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作者: kahsinchia    時間: 2010-12-14 08:35 AM

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作者: 12天蠍    時間: 2010-12-14 08:47 AM

普通電腦是可以合成超級電腦
但是不可能用PS3來做
現在一個CPU就比PS3強多了
而且PS3沒有很多功能，因為對遊戲作特化了

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作者: akirag    時間: 2010-12-14 08:52 AM

ps3 ~


當初說可模擬地球~

現在看來  x360在遊戲這塊略佔上風


老任還是一支獨秀呀  



多存點錢   等著明年二月的3DS(好迷人呀~)

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作者: r27876622    時間: 2010-12-14 09:38 AM

普通電腦是可以合成超級電腦
但是不可能用PS3來做
現在一個CPU就比PS3強多了
而且PS3沒有很多功能，因為 ...
12天蠍 發表於 2010-12-14 08:47 AM

不是不可能
而是沒有經濟效益
畢竟是舊規格

這台電腦的出現是因主機cluster的便利性
否則依現行N牌晶片的整合
光是預算可能要多花兩倍以上

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作者: dingerding    時間: 2010-12-14 04:04 PM

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作者: dany9065    時間: 2010-12-14 04:22 PM



別急著否認或說不相信
這個計畫是真的在實行的
不能貼上網址
只能轉貼禿鷹計畫網站內容

Condor High Throughput Computing


The goal of the Condor® Project is to develop, implement, deploy, and evaluate mechanisms and policies that support High Throughput Computing (HTC) on large collections of distributively owned computing resources. Guided by both the technological and sociological challenges of such a computing environment, the Condor Team has been building software tools that enable scientists and engineers to increase their computing throughput.

If you find Condor as interesting as we do, consider joining our team of talented and enthusiastic developers.
Current Releases
Stable series: Condor Version 7.4.4 released October 18, 2010
Development series: Condor Version 7.5.4 released October 20, 2010
Previous Stable series: Condor Version 7.2.5 released Dec 21, 2009
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Condor Week 2011, our annual conference will be May 2nd-6th, 2011.
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Recent News

(December 8, 2010) Purdue researchers analyze Wikipedia using Condor, DAGMan, and TeraGrid
    Dr. Sorin Adam Matei and hi team are using Condor and DAGMan on TeraGrid to study Wikipedia. They are studying how collaborative, network-driven probjects organize and function. Condor allowed them to to hardness approximately 4,800 compute hours in one day, processing 4 terabytes of information.

(October 20, 2010) Red Hat has announces the release of Enterprise MRG Grid 1.3
    The Red Hat news release details the release of Enterprise MRG Grid 1.3, its grid product based on Condor. The release includes new administrative and user tools, Windows execute node support, enhanced workflow management, improved scheduling capabilities, centralized configuration management, and new virtual machine and cloud spill-over features. MRG Grid is also now fully supported for customers in North America and extended coverage is provided to customers throughout Europe. With MRG Grid 1.3, customers will gain the ability to scale to tens of thousands of devices, manage their grid in a centralized fashion, be able to provision virtual machines for grid jobs, and connect their grid to private and public clouds.

(October 20, 2010) Condor 7.5.4 released!
    The Condor Team is pleased to announce the release of Condor 7.5.4. This is a development release of Condor. New features include concurrency limits for parallel jobs, transfer of directories, condor_shared_port on Windows, and improved Amazon EC2 support. It also includes a security fix for users submitting Amazon EC2 jobs (universe=grid and grid_resource=amazon) with the amazon_keypair_file. See the Version History for a complete list of changes. Condor 7.5.4 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

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作者: dany9065    時間: 2010-12-14 04:26 PM

而關於軍機應用PS3 CHIP的相關消息：

                                                                Air Force's PS3 Condor Cluster Takes Flight                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has marked the launch of its Condor PS3 Cluster with a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony on December 1. Initially unveiled last year, the cluster is made up of 1,760 Sony PlayStation 3 processors and 168 general-purpose graphical processing units, providing an estimated 500 teraflops of performance. That places Condor among the top 50 of the world's fastest systems. The pricetag? A mere $2 million.
Mark Barnell, director of AFRL's High Power Computing, explained that comparable systems would cost at least $20 million to $40 million.
Sony sells the systems at a loss with the aim of recouping the money selling expensive games and gaming accessories, such as memory sticks -- but in the process they are inadvertently subsidizing the military and anyone else who wants to use the gaming hardware for scientific purposes.
This is not your parent's Pong, that's for sure. Instead it's probably the biggest supercomputing bang you can get for your buck. The Air Force Research Lab took a really sophisticated gaming system that uses the power of the cutting-edge Cell processor to boost speed, and put it to task running scientific applications. That's the kind of outside-the-box thinking that can lead to high success or tanking failure. But in this case, it is working out very well, as Barnell elucidates in an article at Airman Magazine:

"By using the cell processors in the PS3s and the GPGPUs in unison, we've produced a system that does a very good job at handling this kind of [surveillance] information. We've developed the most powerful heterogeneous supercomputer in the world for a fraction of the cost of building it using individual chips and servers."

Barnell has also stated that the Condor Cluster is the DoD's most powerful "interactive" supercomputer. He explains what this means in a Q&A at SmartPlanet.com:

From the perspective of most of the supercomputing centers in the DoD, when millions or tens of millions of dollars are invested, you don't want to waste cycles. So these computers are run in what is called "batch mode." They keep these systems running at very high levels, all of the time, so the applications that use them are carefully managed and optimized.

On this computer, we're not tied to these metrics, mainly because it was so inexpensive. We do a lot of research and development on this system, so we start with only a few nodes, make sure [the software] works, and scale up from there. We have a lot of users [in the DoD] who, when they're actually developing code, have a tendency to hang a machine or two. When you do that, the computer becomes ineffective until we reboot it.

It should be noted that Condor uses the old PS3 systems, not the new PS3 Slims. Sony made a decision not to support Linux anymore, so if the systems are given firmware upgrades, they won't be able to run the Linux OS anymore. They can't even be sent in for repair because the mandatory upgrade will render them useless to AFRL. Sony could choose to reverse the policy, and with the all the publicity around the Air Force's new wunder-cluster, they may just change their minds.
In the meantime, the AFRL is using the system for targeted applications such as neuromorphic artificial intelligence research, synthetic aperture radar enhancement, image enhancement and pattern recognition research. For further details on these interesting projects, check out coverage from DVIDS.
The Condor Cluster will be available to all DoD users on a shared basis. It uses less than one-tenth the power of a comparable system, making it cost-effective and green.

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作者: skebenego    時間: 2010-12-14 06:03 PM

會不會改天所有PS3串聯起來~產生魔鬼終結者...

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作者: timothy3959    時間: 2010-12-18 05:09 PM

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