A Playstation 3 Super Computer

Posted by Jorge on Dec 18, 2008 in General, Linked, Technology |
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Physics Professor Gaurav Khanna along with Principal Investigator Chris Poulin from UMass Dartmouth assembled a public guide to putting together a supercomputer with a well known game system.

Khanna took 8 donated Playstation 3’s and made a super computer that he used to solve “complex equations designed to predict the properties of gravitational waves generated by the black holes located at the center of the galaxies.”

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Information found at: PhysOrg.com

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