PS3 to be Used for National Security

[gEEzER]

PNNL Using PS3 for Research
June 21, 2007 10:14 AM CDT

PNNL Uses Same Technology as Play Station 3 for National Security

RICHLAND, Wash.- Believe it or not, technology on your Playstation is being used to help develop new national security devices.

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are using the same technology used in the new Playstation 3 to develop new video tools for national security.

The research is being done on this small supercomputer, believe it or not it has about one-quarter the computing power of the lab's 8,000 square foot supercomputer.

Researchers hope to develop new ways to manage things like security video and facial recognition technology without a human administrator.

"It places a tremendous burden on the operator of those control environments that are looking at all those video feeds coming in and not knowing how to process all that information and this is an opportunity to bring machine based processing into the video analysis environment," said lab researcher Mark Goodwin.

PNNL is working on the research with Massachusetts based Mercury Computer Systems.


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[Master gamer]

One word to describe this console is awesome.

[damien©]

One word to describe this console is awesome.

Or overrated, I mean it talks a good talk but we have yet to see anything to back these claims up, gaming wise.

[gEEzER]

we have yet to see anything to back these claims up, gaming wise.


And at six months after launch this is normal.

[damien©]

And at six months after launch this is normal.

Yea I know, when you compare a launch game with some of the last games to come out of a console, you often find it hard to see how they actually fun on the same unit.

My point is that people always go on about how powerful a console is or isn't but the fact of the matter is, it's either useless information or just more hype building. That haven't showed us, yet, that they can do anything with the PS3 which can't already be done on lesser hardware.

I just want to know that the PS3 can actual do what it says and this story doesn't prove it. We want Games and no Games that are constantly pushed back and back.

Not having ago at you, it's just more of the crap that's coming from Sony lately without actually showing us what they and the PS3 can do.

[gEEzER]

Yea I know, when you compare a launch game with some of the last games to come out of a console, you often find it hard to see how they actually fun on the same unit.

My point is that people always go on about how powerful a console is or isn't but the fact of the matter is, it's either useless information or just more hype building. That haven't showed us, yet, that they can do anything with the PS3 which can't already be done on lesser hardware.

I just want to know that the PS3 can actual do what it says and this story doesn't prove it. We want Games and no Games that are constantly pushed back and back.

Not having ago at you, it's just more of the crap that's coming from Sony lately without actually showing us what they and the PS3 can do.

You make some valid points :)

Games have always been pushed back. That's the nature of the beast. It's annoying though.

I completely agree with you that we have got to start to see games that live up to the PS3's potential. I have SC: DA and I played it on 360. It looks lightly better on the 3fixme. Same with F.E.A.R. The only multiplatform game that looks better on PS3 (from what I've seen) is Oblivion. At least if developers are going to port a game to the PS3, tweak it graphically.

In the last generation, Xbox was stuck with a lot of PC ports. The trend this gereration is that the PS3 is getting 360 ports with slightly worse graphics.

I hope I'm wrong on this but I see getting 360 ports as becoming a trend this generation with only exclusive games touching on the Cells graphic capabilities.