View full size John Berry / The Post-Standard A PlayStation 3 video game console, one of the 1,716 systems linked together at Rome Lab to form a supercomputer. The Condor helps meet that.

One of the people in his department was an avid gamer and mentioned the PS3’s Cell processor, which was made by IBM. A similar kind of chip was being used to build advanced supercomputers .

(Phys.org)—About the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world right now is the US Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) newest system, which has a core made of 1,760 Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3 ...

Guarav Khanna is using old PlayStations to build supercomputers that run simulations of black holes. The University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth physics professor needed a supercomputer, but had to ...

The Condor project is a supercomputer made up of 1,716 PS3s for the Air Force's image processing tasks and is considered one of the top forty ... military, PS3. Contributor View Bio . May 13, 2025.

The Air Force Research Laboratory has recently finished work on a several-month long project, in which a supercomputer made entirely out of PlayStation 3s was constructed. If you think you're ...

Clearly, the U.S. Air Force had a lot of faith in the PlayStation 3. Between the comparatively lower cost of a supercomputer alternative and the lower energy use, it was a no brainer to use the ...