Air Force to Build a $2M Supercomputer Using PlayStations

The U.S. Air Force is in the process of building a 500 teraFLOPS supercomputer that will only cost $2 million. Impossible, you say? Not when you build it with PlayStation 3 (PS3)consoles. The Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., have already built a cluster with 336 SonyPS3s and are beefing that up by another…