Afaik these university projects were done to test out how Cell-based supercomputers would behave. They're not competitive with up-to-date Supercomputers. In my

Afaik these university projects were done to test out how Cell-based supercomputers would behave. They're not competitive with up-to-date Supercomputers. In my lab I found a couple of PS3s lying around several years ago, that hadn't been used in quite a while. (One of them may or may not have been adopted for less scientific purposes …)