US Air Force making a supercomputer out of 2,000 PS3 consoles

[BodyDroppedNikes]

U.S. Air Force building supercomputer from PS3s - Plugged In - Yahoo! Games

 

[phyregod]

Scientists have been doing it since its release. Not with 2000 of them per say..

"500 TeraFLOPS Heterogeneous Cluster" rofl!

 

[phunky.buddha]

Pretty cool. Way to use Sony's marketing exercise to save money- each PS3 represents way more than $300 of hardware.

 

[Drake]

No doubt about that, Sony takes a huge hit on each unit they sell. Pretty sure this is the same type of setup they used to break SSL's encryption. Not positive it was SSL though.