Supercomputer of the 16 Sony PlayStation 3

Astrophysicist Gaurav Khanna (Gaurav Khanna) used 16 Sony PlayStation 3 consoles to create a ' supercomputer ', the magazine writes Reghardware. Academic connected consoles inexpensive Ethernet-adapter, and to make the data loaded in the console of a Linux operating system.

The resulting system he uses to study the activity of black holes for the Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts. With this project Hannah wants to describe the properties of gravitational fields, which arise in the collision of black holes.

Installed in the PS3 Cell microprocessor created IBM is not just for video games, but also to handle streaming high-definition video, cluster computing and the use of supercomputers. The latter allowed the sixteen consoles connected together to give more computing power than a computer with four processors with hundreds of.

Gravitational waves - it is a perturbation of the gravitational field, which travel at the speed of light. They have been derived theoretically by Einstein's general relativity, but never directly observed.

Previously, scientists had used for his research consoles Sony. At the end of last year the company gave the professor the University of Massachusetts eight PlayStation 3, Hannah began to study black holes.

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