Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with Eight PlayStation

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Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with Eight PlayStation

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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.
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I guess they should re-market the PS3 to R&D and rename it to Matrix Station 1.
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Gotta love the unintended, but usefulness of the PS3!
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