corser - Slashdot User

US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @05:02AM from the quick-who-knows-a-good-ps3-flight-sim dept.

bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."

Comment Re:waiting game (Score 1) 102

by corser on Thursday January 29, 2009 @04:01PM (#26657645) Attached to: AMD Adds OpenGL 3.0 Support To Graphics Drivers

Apple is the single point of contact for all updates to their systems.

Any files/libraries needed in addition to the drivers would come from apple during the same update. Assuming they provide one.

It's of of the nice things about apple and it's one of the most frustrating when you find there is a bug

Comment Re:waiting game (Score 1) 102

by corser on Thursday January 29, 2009 @03:55PM (#26657555) Attached to: AMD Adds OpenGL 3.0 Support To Graphics Drivers

They try to use whatever available as you probably know...

Tell that to my non hardware accelerated h.264 video.

It's mostly QT since XBMC plays MKV video much better, but it would still be nice to not boot up into windows for high bit rate stuff

Comment Re:Incompetence By Design (Score 1) 449

by corser on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @09:13AM (#26341759) Attached to: NZ File-Sharers, Remixers Guilty Upon Accusation

Far as I know, in Canada, the bill keeps dying cause we have an election every 45 minutes. Lucky us I guess. As to why it would be worse, my guess is because we have government that is willing to bend over to ensure that exports don't stop and money keeps flowing into the country. The "little guy" is always eager to show the "big boys" he's willing to play by their rules by going one step further. Canada has a massive inferiority complex, to the point where we get excited when someone/something Canadian is mentioned on TV or becomes popular. It's sad.

Comment Re:Leopard has been fine for me (Score 1) 165

by corser on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @12:48PM (#23557981) Attached to: Mac OS X 10.5.3 To Fix Over 200 Bugs, Coming Soon

10.5.2 has been 90% fine for me. Occasionally, it won't wake up from sleep for a few minutes and there are weird graphical glitches in Safari when I run off battery.

Slashdot Top Deals