UAHuntsville on The Escapist
A news story about my alma mater ended up getting a blurb on The Escapist, my favorite online gaming publication. What's the connection to gaming? Cheap hardware. UAH and UMass Dartmouth are using a cluster of PlayStation 3s to run some astrophysics calculations to test theories about black holes:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/88324-PS3-Cluster-Solves-Black-Hole-Mystery
For comparison, you can also read about it from UAH's own news site:
http://www.uah.edu/News/newsread.php?newsID=1265
Go figure. All this time I thought the PlayStation 3 was just a fancy BluRay player with the added feature of being able to play Metal Gear Solid 4. Seriously though, it's nice to see the PS3 getting some play... or work? Work! That could be just the angle marketers should use this Christmas. "The Sony WorkStation 3. Give the gift of advanced computation to the scientist in your life this holiday season." And, considering how cost-prohibitive the PS3 has been for many gamers, it's most unexpected but certainly not ironic that one man's expensive console is another man's bargain-barrel supercomputer.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/88324-PS3-Cluster-Solves-Black-Hole-Mystery
For comparison, you can also read about it from UAH's own news site:
http://www.uah.edu/News/newsread.php?newsID=1265
Go figure. All this time I thought the PlayStation 3 was just a fancy BluRay player with the added feature of being able to play Metal Gear Solid 4. Seriously though, it's nice to see the PS3 getting some play... or work? Work! That could be just the angle marketers should use this Christmas. "The Sony WorkStation 3. Give the gift of advanced computation to the scientist in your life this holiday season." And, considering how cost-prohibitive the PS3 has been for many gamers, it's most unexpected but certainly not ironic that one man's expensive console is another man's bargain-barrel supercomputer.