Thread: Air Force Unveils Fastest Defense Supercomputer, Made of 1,760 PlayStation 3s
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Old 12-06-2010, 05:36 PM  
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At a total cost of about $2 million, the AFRL estimates the cluster costs something like five to 10 percent of equivalent computers built from scratch. It also consumes just 10 percent of the power.
Since when does the government care about cost efficiency?
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