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Green supercomputing is becoming a fact and a new generation of compact and energy-efficient computers is emerging. A supercomputer 10 times more energy efficient and up to 300 times faster than its traditional equivalents has been unveiled in Scotland last march.

But making your supercomputer low power enough that you can run it using pedal power is something new.

The idea of using game consoles as supercomputers is not new. Many clusters based on Sony Playstation and other console emerged the last few years as an affordable alternative to clusters built from mainstream of the shelf computing components.

The Sony PlayStation 3 has a number of unique features that make it particularly suited for scientific computation.Its incredibly low cost makes it very attractive as a scientific computing node, that is part of a cluster. In fact, its highly plausible that the raw computing power per dollar that the PS3 offers, is significantly higher than anything else on the market today!

Following the announcement of the new NEC SX-9, the following video was posted with and introduction to the new system and an interview with NEC about the system.