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December 2, 2010 by Lisa Zyga

The Condor Cluster consists of 1,760 Sony PlayStation 3′s, and is the US Department of Defense’s fastest interactive computer. Image credit: US Department of Defense.

(PhysOrg.com) — About the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world right now is the US Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) newest system, which has a core made of 1,760 Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles. In addition to its large capacity, the so-called “Condor Cluster” is capable of performing 500 trillion floating point operations per second (TFLOPS), making it the fastest interactive computer in the entire US Defense Department.