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US Air Force orders 2200 Sony PS3s
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| The US Air Force plans to buy a whopping 2200
| PlayStation 3 games consoles which it will use
| to expand an existing PS3-based supercomputer.
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| [...]
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| The entire set-up runs on an in-house developed
| Linux-based OS.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/25/ps3_supercomputer/
U.S. Military building PS3 supercomputer
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| A recent InformationWeek article reveals that
| Rome hosts the Air Force Research Laboratory's
| information directorate, where the military is
| conducting research on the possibilities of
| supercomputing "to determine the best fit for
| implementation of various applications" that
| take advantage of networked PS3 Cell proessors
| running Linux.
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http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/213076/u-s-military-building-ps3-supercomputer/
Related:
[Hill Air Force Base Making] Order out of chaos
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| Hill is using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 5, which has received Common
| Operating Environment certification from the Defense Information Systems
| Agency, meeting DISA requirements for interoperability, performance and
| standards. It also received certification through the Common Criteria
| Evaluation and Validation Scheme, a cooperative effort of the United States,
| Canada and Europe thatâs spearheaded by the National Institute of Standards
| and Technology. CCEVS is âsort of a Good Housekeeping Seal of approvalâ that
| a product is secure, Smith said.
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| Microsoft Windows just doesnât have a good reputation when it has to scale to
| an enterprise application that requires high levels of security, Smith said.
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http://www.gcn.com/print/26_16/44607-1.html
A--Redhat Software License and Support
http://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AFMC/ASC/FA8604-07-R-7041/Combine%20Synopsis%5FSolicitation.html
Air Force wants to reuse software components
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| The strategy, said Charles Riechers, the Air Force's principal
| deputy assistant secretary for acquisition, is to "encourage the
| use of open standards, open data interfaces and best-of-breed open
| source software solutions."
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http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/44278-1.html
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