Noting that funding for science has run dry for many researchers, [Gaurav] has built a supercomputer from 200 Playstation 3 consoles housed ... Enter the Air Force. Dr. [Khanna] was not the ...

Ranked as the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world at the time, the "Condor Cluster" was built by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) using 1,760 PlayStation 3 consoles. Situated in ...

The US Air Force's Air Force Research Laboratory built a PS3-based supercomputer in 2009 from 1,760 CBEA microprocessors and 168 GPUs, which helped to push performance to an estimated 500 teraflops.