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Rome Lab's supercomputer is made up of 1,700 off-the-shelf PlayStation 3 gaming consoles - syracuse.com
Why was the Sony PS3 famously 35 times more powerful than the PS2 but the PS4 was only a few times more powerful than the PS3 and the upcoming PS5 is only
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