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Physicist gives Air Force PS3 supercomputer consoles new life in refrigerated container
Original: A physicist gave 176 consoles from the Air Force's PS3 supercomputer a second life inside a refrigerated shipping container
A physicist has repurposed 176 PlayStation 3 consoles that once formed part of the US Air Force's famous PS3 supercomputer, housing them in a refrigerated shipping container. The Air Force built its original 'Condor Cluster' from roughly 1,700 PS3 units, one of the fastest supercomputers of its time. The project is drawing attention as a creative example of hardware reuse, turning retired military gaming consoles into a working compute cluster for research.
Why now: The unusual reuse of military supercomputer hardware made of consumer game consoles is a striking, nostalgic tech story
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