Noting that funding for science has run dry for many researchers, [Gaurav] has built a supercomputer from 200 Playstation 3 consoles housed and chilled inside an old refrigerated shipping trailer.

Noting that funding for science has run dry for many researchers, [Gaurav] has built a supercomputer from 200 Playstation 3 consoles housed and chilled inside an old refrigerated shipping trailer.

Ranked as the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world at the time, the "Condor Cluster" was built by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) using 1,760 PlayStation 3 consoles. Situated in ...

"PS3 was Sony's Icarus moment. We had PS1, PS2... and now we're building a supercomputer! And we're going to put Linux on it! And we're going to do all these sorts of things! We flew too close to ...

Jordan - the country, not the model - has unveiled a 25-teraflop supercomputer based on Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) hardware. The IMAN1 computer had its first public outing at the MENA ICT Forum in ...