Scientist Builds a Supercomputer from PS3's to Study Black Holes

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When government funding for research isn't exactly pouring in you gotta get crafty and that's exactly what physicist Gaurav Khanna of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth did.
He has put together over 200 Playstation 3 consoles into one big PS3 Super Computer to research finding and studying gravitational waves, vibrations that ripple through space-time.

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