alt Hacker NewsThe US Department of Defense went quite a bit further. They created the Condor Cluster in 2010 which was comprised of 1760 PS3s. At the time it was placed 33rd worldwide for a supercomputer.
https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomput...
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widowlark • today at 2:49 PM
they couldn't have gone for 1776 of them?
genewitch • today at 12:16 AM
at some point it was claimed that the reason sony removed the ability to run linux was because, literally, Saddam Hussein (maybe not) was using them to pilot jets or somesuch.
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At the time, entire PS3s were cheaper than what it cost to get the CPU from IBM.