http://seekingalpha.com/article/81834-ibm-wins-supercomputing-bakeoff?source=yahoo

One key excerpt: "the petaflop-smashing system gets its world-leading power from 12,240 IBM PowerXCell 8i Cell Broadband Engine(TM) processors — derived from chips that power today’s most popular videogame consoles." PS3 gets honorable(?) mention later...

Apple to Oranges, but the theory behind the tech is the same.

Actually mercury computer was shipping systems in 2006 (before the PS3 was available) with a cell processor.

Are they going to donate processor time to Folding@home?