this thing is taking off...
PS3 horsepower has already crushed PC's...
excerpt from FAH project home, stats by OS...
PS3's are contributing well over 2x the teraflops as windows PC's with less than 10% of the active CPU count...Client statistics by OS
OS Type Current TFLOPS* Active CPUs Total CPUs
Windows 151 159198 1624934
Mac OS X/PowerPC 7 8716 95341
Mac OS X/Intel 8 2716 7216
Linux 42 24971 215703
GPU 41 700 2188
PLAYSTATION®3 367 14971 15914
Total 616 211272 1961296
I have read they are processing frames at a rate of < 0.5 sec/frame and completing a workunit in under 10 hours...
time will tell if the hardware holds up, but if it does then I guess PS3 farms are the new DC frontier...