Guarav Khanna is using old PlayStations to build supercomputers that run simulations of black holes. The University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth physics professor needed a supercomputer, but had to ...

The Condor project is a supercomputer made up of 1,716 PS3s for the Air Force's image processing tasks and is considered one of the top forty ... military, PS3. Contributor View Bio . May 13, 2025.

That, and the cheap cost, would prove crucial to making the PS3 supercomputer viable. If you have yet to upgrade from a PS3 to a PS4, maybe think twice about selling your old console or throwing ...

Sony, your friendly supercomputer vendor Sony generously donated 8 PS3 consoles to Professor Gaurav Khanna of the University of Massachusetts for his research on black holes and quantum cosmology.

To ease his supercomputing plight, Khanna turned to the cell chip inside the PS3. By linking eight of them together, he said he gets the same processing power as a supercomputer with 200 processors.

The Air Force Research Laboratory has recently finished work on a several-month long project, in which a supercomputer made entirely out of PlayStation 3s was constructed. If you think you're ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A subtle change Sony made recently to its Playstation 3 video game ...

Noting that funding for science has run dry for many researchers, [Gaurav] has built a supercomputer from 200 Playstation 3 consoles housed and chilled inside an old refrigerated shipping trailer. … ...

Gaurav Khanna, an assistant professor of astrophysics, is using a cluster of eight Sony PlayStation 3 consoles running Linux to run computations that used to require hundreds of supercomputer nodes.

Cell's immense power is largely undisputed by the scientific community. Folding@Home is just one example of how Cell and the PS3 can compute massive amounts of data for the sake of scientific ...

It can cost thousands of dollars for researchers to run simulations on supercomputers — so some computer scientists have decided to build cheaper ones — out of Playstation 3's.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has made a supercomputer from an army of Sony PlayStation 2 consoles--at a cost of little more than $50,000.