new supercomputing metric: gigaflops per watt

[David Nicol]

The air force has wired together almost two thousand playstations at
wright-pat. The article doesn't say what OS they're using, or if they're
running code on the graphics chips.

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2010/12/air-force-playstation-3-supercomputer-122410w/

-- 
“The aeroplane is fatally defective. It is merely a toy—a sporting
play-thing.  It can never become commercially practical." -- Nikola Tesla
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