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[Nvyseal]

images/news/ps3.jpgWhat do you do when you're the U.S. government and you need heaps of computing power, quick and on the cheap? You snatch up 300 Sony PlayStation 3's of course. We've seen researchers use the gaming consoles before to crunch numbers and study gravity, and now the Air Force wants in on the Cell processor-powered action.

What exactly the Air Force plans to use the 300 PlayStations for is unclear, but the branch of the armed forces is getting price quotes from resellers.

Knowing that the PS3 is less a gaming machine and more a super computer in disguise, all we can say is we're glad it's the Air Force and not the NSA.

If you have 300 PS3's hiding under your bed (brewin), Place your Solicitation HERE
40GB's Only. Others need not apply!

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[TheBearLT]

Geez, you think like IBM would not had made cheap super computer for the government ?
Of course they did.

And PS3s they bought just for Entertainment.. Like, should people do something in NORAD