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Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with Eight PlayStation

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:44 am
by XMEN Iceman
Right now, a cluster of eight interlinked PS3s is busy solving a celestial mystery involving gravitational waves and what happens when a super-massive black hole, about a million times the mass of our own sun, swallows up a star.

Khanna says that his gravity grid has been up and running for a little over a month now and that, crudely speaking, his eight consoles are equal to about 200 of the supercomputing nodes he used to rely on.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/20 ... ercomputer


Linux rocks! David 8)

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:58 am
by TimberWolf
I guess they should re-market the PS3 to R&D and rename it to Matrix Station 1.

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:21 pm
by Spinning Hat
Gotta love the unintended, but usefulness of the PS3!