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 .

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 ...

(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 ...

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.

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.

Amazon’s cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services Tuesday announced plans for an “Ultracluster,” a massive AI supercomputer made up of hundreds of thousands of its homegrown Trainium chips ...

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 ...

Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) new supercomputer will be an “UltraCluster” made of the firm’s Trainium chips, which are intended for AI programs and which the company hopes could rival the ...

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 ...