U.S. Air Force Creates Powerful Supercomputer Out Of PS3s

“The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has connected 1,760
PlayStation 3 systems together to create what the organization is
calling the fastest interactive computer in the entire Defense
Department.

“The Condor Cluster, as the group of systems is known, also
includes 168 separate graphical processing units and 84
coordinating servers in an parallel array capable of performing 500
trillion floating point operations per second (500 TFLOPS),
according to AFRL Director of High Power Computing Mark
Barnell.

“Using PS3s for the supercomputer’s core allowed AFRL to
construct the system for a total cost of $2 million”

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