Scientist Is Using PS3 To Study Black Holes — cinemablend.com

When I heard about this story, my first thought was, “Hey, wasn’t the Air Force doing something similar to this back in 2010?” They were, actually, but it turns out that’s all because someone working at the Air Force Research Laboratory in New York heard about Dr. Khanna’s PS3 experiments from a year prior and decided that building their own supercomputer out of the consoles was a great idea. According to this latest story from The New York Times, Dr. Khanna’s PS3 projects have grown over the years, garnering the attention of quite a few students on campus. Buzz has been building around campus since 2007, when this black hole physicist decided to network 16 consoles together in order to conduct some research.

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