{"id":212,"date":"2007-10-17T08:05:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T15:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2007-10-17T08:05:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T15:05:26","slug":"20071017-eight-ps3-supercomputer-ponders-gravity-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/17\/20071017-eight-ps3-supercomputer-ponders-gravity-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"2007\/10\/17 Eight PS3 \u2018Supercomputer\u2019 Ponders Gravity Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow Super PS3 Computer? Article from slashdot.org<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"article\" id=\"art1\">\n<p class=\"generaltitle\">\n<p class=\"title\">\n<h3> \t\t\t<span><a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/\">Games<\/a>:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/games\/07\/10\/17\/1314221.shtml\">Eight PS3 &#8216;Supercomputer&#8217; Ponders Gravity Waves<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"details\">  \t \t<strong>Posted by \t \t<a href=\"http:\/\/cmdrtaco.net\/\">CmdrTaco<\/a>  \ton Wednesday October 17, @10:50AM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>from the <strong>because-you-can<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\n<p class=\"topic\"> \t\t \t\t \t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=231\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/images.slashdot.org\/topics\/topicsupercomputing.gif\" alt=\"Supercomputing\" title=\"Supercomputing\" height=\"72\" width=\"81\" \/> \t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\"> \t\t\tJamie found a story about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/techbiz\/it\/news\/2007\/10\/ps3_supercomputer\">inexpensive supercomputer<\/a> being used by an astrophysicist to research gravity waves. The interesting bit is that the system is built using 8 PS3s. Since nobody is actually playing games on the system, it makes sense to use them for research projects like this, but I really wonder now what is defining &#8216;Supercomputer&#8217;&#8230; I mean, a hundred PS3s sure, but 8? I think we are de-valuing the meaning of the word &#8216;super&#8217; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow Super PS3 Computer? Article from slashdot.org Games: Eight PS3 &#8216;Supercomputer&#8217; Ponders Gravity Waves Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 17, @10:50AM from the because-you-can dept. Jamie found a story about a inexpensive supercomputer being used by an astrophysicist to research gravity waves. The interesting bit is that the system is built using 8 PS3s. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}