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They did not have a support contract.

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2011/03/rome_labs_supercompute...

> Rome Lab asked the Department of Defense for $2.5 million to assemble its supercomputer. By the time money to buy that many was approved in 2009, PlayStation 3s were hard to find. Rome Lab bought as many as they could — 1,700.




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