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.

That, and the cheap cost, would prove crucial to making the PS3 supercomputer viable. If you have yet to upgrade from a PS3 to a PS4, maybe think twice about selling your old console or throwing ...

To ease his supercomputing plight, Khanna turned to the cell chip inside the PS3. By linking eight of them together, he said he gets the same processing power as a supercomputer with 200 processors.

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 ...

The Condor Supercomputer’s PlayStation 3, ... China made news in November 2010 when it took the spot for the world’s fastest computer with the record-breaking Tianhe-1A system.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A subtle change Sony made recently to its Playstation 3 video game ...