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TIL the U.S. government used 1,760 Playstation 3's to build a supercomputer for the Department of Defense. Their reason: It was more cost efficient and "green". : r/todayilearned
Why did the US Air Force assemble a supercomputer using thousands of Playstation 3 consoles in 2011 even though they were several years old already and were much less powerful than even
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