UMass team creates guide for supercomputer

DARTMOUTH, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Dartmouth physics professor Gaurav Khanna and UMass Dartmouth principal investigator Chris Poulin have created a step-by-step guide to building a supercomputer that can reduce the cost of university and general-computing research.
Found at www.ps3cluster.org, the guide illustrates how to create a fully functioning and high-performance supercomputer with the Sony Playstation 3.
Last year, Khanna’s construction of a small supercomputer using eight Sony-donated Playstation 3 gaming consoles made headlines nationwide in the scientific community. On the consoles, he is solving complex equations designed to predict the properties of gravitational waves generated by the black holes located at the center of the galaxies. &#8226