67368 external_news 1308310493 1475893483 The U.S. Air Force has thousands of Sony PlayStation 3 consoles on its wish list this season, but the brass aren't waiting to play Call of Duty; they want to string the machines together to create a massive supercomputer. Professor David Bader, executive director of high performance computing at Georgia Tech, has researched the possibility of using PS3 clusters in aircraft monitoring and financial risk assessment.

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