"Boffin stacks 16 PS3s to simulate black hole collisions" Register Hardware (February 28, 2008)
Astrophysicist Gaurav Khanna uses "16 PS3 consoles, all linked together to provide the same computing power as a 400-node supercomputer. His set up, which he calls a 'gravity grid', is used to simulate the activity of very large black holes for the Physics Department at the University of Massachusetts."
Innovative! Hat's off to the designer of this very smart, and comparatively inexpensive, supercomputer.
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