Hey Tiny, rustShack also posted his name

psn: rustshack

Hey guys, I now have PS3 video and audio chat hooked up in my office, so if any of ya'll want to virtually hang out, let me know.

nice, and i finially got a HS that works :) let me know when you guys are up for some more COD4. i will be on this evening :)

I would just ask the wife but she's asleep. Anyone know if the price has dropped on the two bundles or if they've offered any new PS3 packages yet?...

Boffin stacks 16 PS3s to simulate black hole collisions

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02...ng_blackholes/

By Scott Snowden [More by this author]
28th February 2008 00:02 GMT

When most of us arrived home with our newly purchased PS3, we couldn't wait to start annihilating aliens in Resistance: Fall of Man or kicking butt kung fu-style in Virtua Fighter 5. Not astrophysicist Gaurav Khanna - he used his to build a supercomputer.

Khanna now owns a total of 16 PS3 consoles, all linked together to provide the same computing power as a 400-node supercomputer. His set up, which he calls a 'gravity grid', is used to simulate the activity of very large black holes for the Physics Department at the University of Massachusetts.
Rack mounted PS3s at the University of Massachusetts

http://regmedia.co.uk/2008/02/27/rac...ercomputer.jpg

Stacked Sonies: the 'gravity grid' set up

The project is an attempt to estimate the properties of gravity waves generated by the collision of two black holes. Gravitational waves are 'ripples' in space-time that travel at the speed of light. These were theoretically predicted by Einstein's general relativity, but have never been directly observed.

In order to run his simulation data on the consoles, Khanna had to load the PS3s with Linux. What makes the gaming console more effective than high-end computers for complex research algorithms is the Cell chip built by IBM to process high-end gaming functions.
PS3 cosmology rack

Linux powered

"Linux can turn any system into a general-purpose computer, but for it to work for me I have to run my own code on it for astrophysics applications. The hard part of the job was to make sure my own calculations could run fast on the platform, which meant I had to optimise the written code so it could utilise the new features of the system."
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The 16 PS3s haven't been physically modified. They're networked together using an inexpensive Gigabit Ethernet switch.

"Overall, a single PS3 performs better than the highest-end desktops available and compares to as many as 25 nodes of an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer," Khanna noted.

More details from Khanna's project site here.

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Had no clue that you could download Grand Tourismo HD for free. Been so damned long since i played that damn game. One night when i was younger, me and a friend drank all ****ing night playing that game, didnt even sleep and went to work half drunk. lol

how is it?

Its good. The HD graphics for a ps1 game are very very nice.

Going to get MLB2k8 for my 360 later and going to pick up God of War for the ps2 to play in the ps3. I heard many great thngs about GoW, time to see what its all about.

So Gran Turismo HD is the entire first GT just revamped? I thought it was just a glorified demo of GT5 Prologue.

somebody's getting jealous...

its me :)

j/k LMAO

i d/l'd it and its f-ing sweet. is it only time trials and such and no circuit mode? (ya know where you raced other cars)?

Who is down for a game of MLB 08 the show, or some Army of Two?

nevermind