US Air Force has a headache for PS3

Having purchased 1,700 sets of Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) to build supercomputers, the US Air Force currently does not know how to upgrade the entire system with the latest firmware (firmware) of Sony .

The US Air Force uses PS3 to build servers. Updating firmware is relatively time consuming and complicated for users of technology equipment. If the update fails or the update process fails, it is likely that the device will be damaged, or the operation is unstable. With the number of PS3s reaching thousands of units as is the case with the US Air Force, this update process can become a nightmare.

The number of PS3s used by the US Air Force for the 500 TeraFLOP supercomputing system. The reason PS3 was chosen is because it has a very powerful Cell chip. The cost of this supercomputing system is much cheaper than investing in a conventional supercomputer system.

The problem is that the PS3-based supercomputing system runs on the Linux platform, which is not supported by Sony's latest firmware. The US Air Force's PS3 server system is not connected to the PlayStation Network, so the upgrade is completely manual. Normally in these cases, the buyer must send the PS3 to Sony's factory to reinstall.