PS3's now thinking about black holes!

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Found this interesting article today:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_bl...ic_id=25986660

Now another researcher is using the PS3 in the hopes of making scientific advances. According to Wired, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth astrophysicist Dr. Gaurav Khanna has rigged up an array of eight PS3 systems to help him crunch numbers in his study of theoretical gravity waves. The waves are supposed to be a byproduct of a supermassive black hole consuming a star, and Khanna is using the processing power to determine if such waves would be strong enough that we could observe them some day.

Previously in his research, Khanna was forced to pay as much as $5,000 for the use of a supercomputer to crunch his numbers. Although Sony provided Khanna with the PS3s free of charge, the astrophysicist told the magazine it would still have been cheaper to use PS3s instead of the supercomputer.

"Basically, it's almost like a replacement," he said. "I don't have to use that supercomputer anymore, which is a good thing."

Don't read the comments if you don't want to lose IQ points. But this was the best comment I saw

"and to think, 360's break just playing games" LOL