TIL Air Force Research Laboratory created a powerful supercomputer, nicknamed the “Condor Cluster,” by connecting together 1,760 Sony PS3s performing 500 trillion floating-point operations per second (500 TFLOPS). As built the Condor Cluster was the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world.

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