Well, it's about time. Children across the world finally have a reason to ask for a PS3 for Christmas this year: Science.

Just look at the top rated games on metacritic right now, the top rated game is Elder Scrolls and its been available for a full year already on Xbox360 and PC. What else, NHL 08? Essentially the same game as NHL 95 for Super Nintendo except you can see the beads of sweat roll down the goalies face. Well if you really want to see sweat roll down a face, take a look at this, then look in a mirror because you're face is bound to be sweatin' with joy:Your eyes aren't deceiving you, its an 8-node rackmounted PS3 cluster. As you can see, researchers finally realized that the only decent game to play on PS3 is Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Scientific Computation. So finally some gamer scientist caught on and realized they could get some serious Cell Processing power for some non-serious amounts of grant cash.

How about I stop talking and just paste a million links I just uncovered on Google about these juicy clusters.

Papers / Guides

• Limitations of the PlayStation 3 for High Performance Cluster Computing
• The Potential of the Cell Processor for Scientific Computing
• A Rough Guide to Scientific Computing On the PlayStation 3
• IBM's An Introduction to Linux on the PS3

Clusters

• Terrasoft's Original PS3 Supercomputer for Bioinformatics (3000 square foot facility with 128-node PS3 cluster, wtf?)
• PS3 Gravity Grid for Astrophysics (the 8 nodes pictured above)
• Frank Mueller PS3 Cluster for (8+1 nodes) for Computer Science
• Distributed and Embedded Systems Lab PS3 Cluster for Computer Science

And if you do happen to have a PS3 lying around at home, blow the dust off and get going on the science! PS3 Grid is waiting for you to compute some molecular dynamics! And I almost forgot Folding@Home for PS3 as well.