Srinivas Dubba - In 2010, the United States Air Force used 1,760 PlayStation 3 consoles to build a supercomputer for the Department of Defense. They used PS3's because it was more cost-efficient
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Rome Lab's supercomputer is made up of 1,700 off-the-shelf PlayStation 3 gaming consoles - syracuse.com
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Kelly Stanford ✍️🧬🧪 on Twitter: "It was also common back in the day to cluster consoles together on a network to be used as a supercomputer. The US Airforce's PS3 cluster was
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