Thursday, 18. October 2007
Topic: SCIENCE - on October 18, 2007 at 12:31:00 PM CEST
Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with Eight PlayStation 3s
Suffering from its exorbitant price point and a dearth of titles, Sony's PlayStation 3 isn't exactly the most popular gaming platform on the block. But while the console flounders in the commercial space, the PS3 may be finding a new calling in the realm of science and research.
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.
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