Sony, IBM and Toshiba developed the Cel chip jointly and Sony went on to use them on the Playstation PS3. With a co-ordinating processor and eight execution units in each chip, the are actually well suited to churn things up a lot. Sony needed to process highspeed processing of hi-resolution of graphics. While doing so fortunately they left it as a open platform.
Now comes news that Gaurav Khanna, Professor of Astorphysics at the University of Mass. at Dartmouth put together eight of these machines and milking it for supercomputer performance; all for an investment of $4000 and some testing time. That really is good news for people looking for performance at a reasonable price!!
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