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Air Force Combines 1,760 PlayStation 3s into One Super Computer

TechDept — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:00:35 +0000

Military saves money and energy by using PS3s for satellite imagery and research projects.

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has unveiled its newest supercomputer, a behemoth system constructed of nearly 2,000 PlayStation 3s, Gamasutra reports. The Condor Cluster, as it’s been named, is capable of 500 TFLOPS per second, and includes 1,760 PS3s, 168 separate graphical processing units, and 84 coordinating servers. The engineers worked with Sony to obtain the systems, and used older models instead of the Slim due to lack of Linux support.

By Steve Watts for 1Up, 01 Dec 2010.

Top 10 iPhone Apps

TechDept — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:06:37 +0000

Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked your favorite iPhone apps. Is your favorite app not represented in the list? Let us know in the comments! And to make sure your vote counts next time, be sure to check back tomorrow for the next edition of the Lunchtime Poll…..

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By Barb Dybwad, Mashable.com, October 15th, 2009

Wired Is Getting Ready For Apple Tablet

TechDept — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:19:13 +0000

First, we heard rumors about the hardware. But you can only have so many rumors about hardware, so after a while everything we’ve heard about Apple’s mythical Tablet merely resulted with one huge pile of colorful images, with little real substance.

The rumors about publishers who are already having big plans for the device, however, are galore. The latest on the list? Condé Nast, which – according to All Things Digital – claims it’s preparing a digital version of Wired magazine for the Apple Tablet by the middle of next year, followed by its other 18 titles.

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By Stan Schroeder, Mashable.com, November 19th, 2009