Dr. Gaurav Khanna made a supercomputer with 8 Playstation 3s . Here is his site:
http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu/ps3.html
He didn’t use the main processor for this, he used the graphics card! This and other projects point to the trend that consumer electronics are gaining performance faster than any other computing devices.
Here’s a good link on scientific computing in the playstation 2:
http://arrakis.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ps2/
This can also be a good choice since the Playstation 2 costs around $100 US compared to the Playstation 3 that costs $500 US. This could really be a nice project to try out. Not that I need to run anything fast (Avida maybe?), but just to learn about computers and to be able to say: I have a supercomputer.
