My favorite was the 33rd in line at the time which was made up of 1700 sony PS3s

https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2010-12-air-plays...

They were more or less cousins, as they were both based on the PowerPC CPU architecture.

However the Sony Cell had just a PowerPC controlling core. The real magic, and why it was used in supercomputers at the time, is in its Stream cores; they were highly tailored for vector and floating point maths.

When the DoE claimed the PS3 could be a dual purpose munition, they weren’t kidding.

Saddam Hussein did try to buy a load of PlayStations at some point.

He also had WMDs. /s

And Anna Nicole married for love

(Great line in the movie Shooter"

About the same headline number as a $350 Xbox Series X! Although fp64 vs fp32 and Linpack vs peak.

You forgot the best part: It was colloquially referred to as the “Big Mac”.

First capture - https://web.archive.org/web/20040724145729/http://www.tcf.vt...

Last capture - https://web.archive.org/web/20070606024231/http://www.tcf.vt...

An FAQ from somewhere in the middle - https://web.archive.org/web/20060708113430/http://www.tcf.vt...