[新闻] 16台PS3模拟黑洞实验

八台啊，怎么可能是16台？现在的小编喜欢炒冷饭？一点新意没有，下面是谣传中的16太新闻出处

下面是英文原文：

IF VIDEO GAMES CAN MAKE PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE ATHLETES, WHY NOT FOOL THEM INTO THINKING THEY ARE SCIENTISTS?
  
Researchers are cannibalising the Sony PlayStation 3 console and other gaming hardware, turning them into low-cost supercomputers to model pharmaceutical molecules and black holes, the weekly New Scientist says.

The PS3 console uses a Cell chip, made by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, that comprises a central processing unit and eight slave processors and can run on the open-access Linux operating system.

The chip is prized by chemists and physicists because the kinds of calculations required to make high-quality graphics for games are similar to those used to simulate reactions between particles, ranging from the molecular to the astronomical.

University of Massachusetts astrophysicist Gaurav Khanna has strung together 16 PS consoles to simulate gravity waves that occur when two black holes collide, the British magazine says.

Another innovation is a graphics processor made by NVIDIA that boosts gaming-image quality in personal computers.

By using the C programming language to run the chip, University of Illinois chemist Todd Martinez found he could run calculations 130 times faster than on an ordinary PC.

接着看下面的中国新闻，还是这个科学家，去年的新闻，原本不过是8台:D

http://server.zol.com.cn/69/691187.html

http://games.enet.com.cn/article/A0220071018003.html

下面是八台原文的新闻：

Oct 17, 2007 5:38 pm PT
Researcher subs PS3s for supercomputer
The PlayStation 3 is increasingly finding a home in the field of academia. Since March, the Folding @home project has been helping Stanford University researchers explore the process by which proteins form. Information processed by the distributed computing program could help give scientists new insight into the causes and treatments of diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and cystic fibrosis.

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."

Khanna hopes to publish his findings in the next few months.

下面是日文原帖：

http://japan.cnet.com/news/biz/story/0,2000056020,20359102,00.htm

唔，下面貌似是日文转载的新闻之前的英文原帖：

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/10/ps3_supercomputer

来，我们继续查，接下来我们到达了台湾：

英科學雜誌：PS3 和 Wii 的高機能半導體技術可廣泛應用於醫療等領域
PlayStation討論板 | 發表時間：2008-02-25 14:29:48 | 編輯者： shintaro(慎太郎)
　　英國科學雜誌《New Scientist》指出，PLAYSTAION 3 等遊戲主機，其實質作為低價格版的超級電腦，可應用於醫學和天文學領域的研究。

　　PS3 所使用的 Cell 半導體同時也可被化學家和物理學者利用，該半導體為東芝和 Sony 製造，為了呈現遊戲高品質影像，其運算能力之優越媲美超級電腦，能夠勝任分子粒子間反應乃至天文學模擬演算。

　　根據雜誌報導，麻省理工的宇宙物理學家 Gaurav Khanna 已經成功模擬結合 16 台 PS3 用來演算 2 個黑洞發生衝突時發生的重力波。

　　美國大型半導體廠商 NVIDIA 為提高電腦遊戲的畫面質量，就曾對 PS3 的圖像處理裝置進行改造。

　　伊利諾斯大學的化學教授 Todd Martinez 發現，利用 Cell 半導體演算 C 程式語言，其效率是普通電腦的 130 倍速。

　　此外，任天堂的家用遊戲機「Wii」遙控器科技也暗藏玄機。據悉器械中感應動作方向和計算加速度的機能，能夠應用於醫療事業。例如可用於提高外科醫生的手術技術、或是讓神經科醫師精準測定帕金森患者的顫抖動作。

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最后，天啊，我看到什么了！！！

http://tgfc.qwd1.com/club/thread-5915897-1-1.html

明明是八台嘛，瞧，新闻本来就在本论坛哦