The Air Force order 2,200 PS3's but they're not for playing Dragon Age, Assassin's Creed II or COD. The 2,200 PS3's will be built in to a supercomputer that will process radar images, HD video processing and neuromorphic computing (whatever the hell that is).
From Information Week
The U.S. Air Force is looking to buy 2,200 Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles to build out a research supercomputer, according to an document posted on the federal government's procurement Web site.
The PlayStation 3s will be used at the Air Force Research Laboratory's information directorate in Rome, N.Y., where they will be added to an existing cluster of 336 PlayStation 3s being used to conduct supercomputing research.[...]
The Air Force has used the cluster to test a method of processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and "neuromorphic computing," or building computers with brain-like properties.
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