[geeks] Playstation 3 cluster simulate black hole collisions

nate at portents.com nate at portents.com
Thu Feb 28 11:16:57 CST 2008


Thought this was a great example of how you can use standard Playstation 3
consoles to do some real scientific research on the cheap:

http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu/ps3.html

"Overall, a single PS3 performs better than the highest-end desktops
available and compares to as many as 25 nodes of an IBM Blue Gene
supercomputer."

- Nate



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