Eh, it's not about the PS3's power. Don't get how people arn't getting this.
It's about the fact that a crapload of PS3's combined can help a supercomputer. The same could be said for a crapload of 360s or Wiis if they were designed that way. Which they wern't... but it seems pretty obvious they should have been.
Well unless it falls into rogue nations hands anyway. The governement was afraid PS2's were going to fall into Iraqs hands and they were going to use them by combining them... much like folding@home into a computer to be used for missle technology or some such.
Wonder how much more possible it is for the PS3 to be used for that since it's actually designed for it and just needs some software to do so.








