Bangalore: With the shooter video games like Call of Duty: Black Ops, a lot of army action has been made available by playstations. To bring out more innovation that would add to their popularity and sales, playstations have come out with real life military duty as part of the Condor Cluster, a U.S. Air Force supercomputer whose off-the-shelf components include more than 1,700 Sony PS3 processors, as reported by Leslie Katz. A series of tasks that the computer will carry out are synthetic aperture radar enhancement, image enhancement, and pattern recognition research and with all this it incorporates 168 separate graphical processing units. With the capability of computing about 500 trillion calculations per second, the computer is 50,000 times faster than the average laptop. The decision made to use PS3 processors was taken keeping affordability in mind as the key motivator. "The total cost of the Condor system was approximately $2 million, which is a cost savings of between 10 and 20 times for the equivalent capability," said Mark Barnell, director of the Air Force Research Laboratory's high-power computing division. "The biggest thing for us was [that] the particular applications and the hardware we chose to build this computer with purposely match those applications well," he said. Neuromorphic artificial intelligence research, in which programmers will "teach" the computer to read symbols, letters, words, and sentences so it can fill in human gaps and correct human errors, will be included as the initial project scheduled for the Department of Defense mega-machine, housed in Rome, N.Y. Playstations have picked up more popularity as military has turned to video games to recruit and train personnel. Military video games, game controllers, and video displays are preloaded in sporting computers of The U.S. Army Experience Center in Philadelphia that provide a description of military bases and career options. Condor Cluster currently holds the spot as the 35th- or 36th-fastest computer in the world is something what Air Force strongly believes in and can be improved by providing the pending updates.