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- ( Read more... )