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Studying Black Holes Using a PlayStation 3 Sunday, December 28, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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A research team from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, have configured 16 PlayStation 3's together to create a type of supercomputer. They say the Sony PlayStation 3 has a number of unique features that make it particularly suited for scientific computation. Equally important, the raw computing power per dollar provided by the PS3 is significantly higher than anything else on the market today. (source: umassd.edu)
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