This used to be fairly common, I think. I remember in college we had a lab full of PS3s because they were cheap and powerful and there was a course you could t

This used to be fairly common, I think. I remember in college we had a lab full of PS3s because they were cheap and powerful and there was a course you could take to learn to develop on them. The lab later expanded after a big donation from nvidia of high end gaming machines to teach students CUDA. The courses sucked though, because everyone would take them just to get access to the labs.