Ball: US Military Built Top-25 Supercomputer Using 1,700 Networked PlayStation 3s
Matthew Ball · The Metaverse & How It Will Change the World with Matthew Ball · Jul 14, 2022 · at 52:34
Matthew Ball, tech essayist and managing partner at Ball Metaverse Research, highlights how consumer gaming hardware has historically driven cutting-edge computing advances.
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“Late last decade, The 25th most powerful computer owned by the US military was 1700 PlayStation threes. And by the way, they said that by using PlayStation threes interconnected de-shelled, they used 95% less energy to operate it and spent 10% of the alternative use.”
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