I remember in college we had a lab full of PS3s because they were cheap and powerful and there was a course you could take to learn to develop on them. The lab later expanded after a big donation from nvidia of high end gaming machines to teach students CUDA.
The courses sucked though, because everyone would take them just to get access to the labs.
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This used to be fairly common, I think.
I remember in college we had a lab full of PS3s because they were cheap and powerful and there was a course you could take to learn to develop on them. The lab later expanded after a big donation from nvidia of high end gaming machines to teach students CUDA.
The courses sucked though, because everyone would take them just to get access to the labs.