Today's DL

Joke of the Day

Q: How many lemmings does it take to turn on an XBox 360?

A: Two! One to press the on button, the other to call customer support when it RRODs!

Video Game Quote of the Day

“Snake? Snake? SNAKE!”

Metal Gear Solid

Video Game Fact/Trivia

The U.S. Air Force loves PlayStation 3

In 2010, the U.S. Air Force created the Condor Cluster, a heterogeneous supercomputer built using off-the-shelf commercial components, including over 1,700 PlayStation 3s. This particular system is about half a petaflop, or capable of about 500 trillion calculations per second," said Mark Barnell, the director of high-performance computing at the Air Force Research Laboratory. "In the current time that we can measure it, it's about the 35th- or 36th-fastest computer in the world. The Condor Cluster cost $2 million to build.