It sounds like how the PS3 commoditized parallel processing thanks to its cheap Cell processor. In a few days it shattered all records of Seti@Home (or was it F

It sounds like how the PS3 commoditized parallel processing thanks to its cheap Cell processor. In a few days it shattered all records of Seti@Home (or was it Folding@home?), and researchers bought PS3s (sometimes building impressive clusters) for all kind of computations.