ps3 as powerful as sandia lab's asci red supercomputer

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if anyone here is a member of the ieee and receives their magazine, you already know this.  ieee did a comparison of the original 2006 version sony playstation 3  to the sandia lab's asci red supercomputer which was finished in 1997.  here are the results.

peak performance: supercopmuter 1.8 teraflops, ps3 1.8 teraflops

physical size: supercomputer 150 square meters,  ps3 .08 square meters

power consumption: supercomputer 800,000 watts, ps3 < 200 watts

thats some pretty phenomenal stuff to accomplish in just 9 years.

 

EDIT: for those of you who dont know what a teraflop is, its one trillion floating point operations per second