16 Mind-Blowing Things You Didn't Know About PlayStation

8. The U.S. Air Force Built A Supercomputer With 1760 PS3s

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Seems Saddam's not the only one compiling supercomputers out of dormant Sony consoles.

Instead, the U.S. Air Force got in on the action, connecting 1760 units into a gigantic processing powerhouse called the 'Condor Cluster'. It was the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world of 2010, capable of processing billions of pixels a second, thereby being the fastest computer in the ENTIRE US Defense Department for that time.

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