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TIL about the "Condor Cluster" that was unveiled in 2010 by the U.S. Air Force unveiled a supercomputer cobbled together with 1,760 PS3s that were to be used for radar enhancement, pattern recognition, satellite imagery processing, and artificial intelligence research.

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