But it was that good for the price point. And you could run Linux on it. That was the Beowulf cluster era. Lots of universities were doing that.

You may be mixing up the PS2 and PS3. The PS3 found some marginal use in computing clusters; the PS2 did not.

	▲	bongodongobob 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		A quick google will show you that it was. I remember because I was in college at the time and that's how I learned what a Beowulf cluster was. Maybe PS3 was more successful or more popular, but there were definitely PS2 clusters.