Why scientists love games consoles

[osgeld]

So rather than using the millions of idle processors around the world for free, scientists should be spending their time and effort into putting together buisiness proposals to convince investors to shell out cash for amazingly expensive supercomputers?

Things like this are not hindering the progression of science. It's giving cheap processing power to labs that would otherwise not have anything greater than a 4 year old dell.

most are not using idle cpu time, most are going out buying PS3's sticking them in classrooms and calling it research and education

[MicroNut]

@sappo & osgeld

Yea, your both right.
The numbers look different on other computers.

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