In 2010, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) unveiled Condor, a roughly $2 million supercomputer that combined more than 1,700 PlayStation 3 consoles with Intel servers and Nvidia graphics processors. The consoles stayed intact, sitting on wire shelves in Rome, New York, running Linux and sharing research calculations across a network.
Dante is a big name in gaming, but it usually refers to the protagonist of the Devil May Cryseries. The poet also lends his name to a cult classic, however — the 2010 hack-and-slash game Dante’s Inferno, originally released on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PSP.
