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The PlayStation 3 protects our country from the bad men

SS4Gogeta | June 22, 2007 | News | Playstation 3 
Well it appears that the power of the PS3 is helping National Security with the power of it's cell processor. National Security, Folding at Home, and server applications! What's next for the PS3?
It seems like people are constantly trying to figure out ways to use the PlayStation 3 in esoteric manners. We have Linuxed PS3s, ray-tracing PS3s, cancer curing PS3s and now we have SkyNet PS3s. According to KNDU News, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are hard at work harnessing the power of the PS3 for national security purposes. The company is trying to harness the Cell-powered device to develop new video tools that would allow for things like increased facial recognition and automated security camera monitoring. In the article, the researchers mention that a single PS3 has about a quarter of the power as their lab's 8,000 square foot supercomputer. So this should allow them to massively increase their computational power without having to make a similarly massive investment. I for one welcome our new PlayStation 3 overlords and their all seeing eye. Now if they would just gift us with some games ...
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    Silver Mirror | June 23, 2007
    Sure the PS3's are helping us now but just watch out, one day there playing games, the next they'll be turning into terminators and killing us all!!!
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    Guticb | June 23, 2007
    Whoah, I didn't think it was THAT powerful! o_0
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    Arcaida | June 23, 2007
    Hot shit man, that's some powerful stuff
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    Deis | June 23, 2007
    War creates better medicinal techniques, competition between gaming companies creates better technology. Who knew?

    I love that those researchers thought outside the box; so many people (alright, my grandmother) dismiss games as "kids stuff".
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    gotenks992 | June 23, 2007
    Some pretty powerful stuff there.
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    Mario_1 | June 23, 2007
    "National Security"? Isn't that a movie?
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      gotenks992 | June 23, 2007
      Yea.

      "National Security get out of your damn car!"
      *woman slaps him*

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    Zhou Tai Rocks | June 23, 2007

    We all really don't thank Sony enough for their wonderful deads to this America.
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    Seeker X | June 23, 2007
    You gotta love Capitalism and competition.
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    Light Warrior | June 23, 2007
    >=( Why does the PS3 have to turn out to be better than the 360. I lvoe the 360 games but I want those on the PS3 so I can own a PS3 >=D.
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    Final Blade | June 23, 2007
    You know me saying, i told you so doesnt seem big enough. I told you how powerful the ps3 was and yet you ppl deny it shame on you all. IT seems the ps3 is more successful all-round than Xbox 360 is.
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    FRoGBuster | June 24, 2007
    no wonder it's so deng expensive. So if I have four of these PS3 babies, I could be rivaling their lab equipment! I thought national security had technology far superior and ahead than currently available public technology. I guess i was wrong.
    Maybe it's just Japan has superior technology? So even their public consumption gaming hardware, we find useful for protection ourselves nationally, hah.
    All the while, Japan is just using their PS4 for Their national security.

    wasn't there also some business about the PS3 having to do with some controversial missle control issue?
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      Existenz | June 24, 2007
      Actually you would have hardware rivalling their supercomputer, though that doesn't mean their supercomputer was shit... 4 PS3's will give you 8 Teraflops of power that is like the equivelant of 80 home PC's though their supercomputer probably cost them in the region of a few million dollars to buy and they need an 8000 square foot area for the whole thing...

      4 PS3's = $2400 heh, and they currently have an 8000 square foot area, they could buy and link up over 2000 PS3's for alot less than they would normally spend on a standard supercomputer set up, which would give them 4000 Teraflops of power heh, you know this could be a massive money saver for them while boosting their power output infinitely.
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    black doom | June 24, 2007
    Wow, that is weird, so America has a Sony based national security system, between that and the Nintendo healing unit one has to wonder if the Wii and PS3 should really be consider able to unlock their true potentials as mere entertainment devices.
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    Supernouva | June 25, 2007
    PS3s are probably modded.

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