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Submission + - The Death of Gallium (asimovs.com)

Maestro485 writes: There's an article on Asimov's titled The Death of Gallium. The author describes that, despite our awareness of extinction and the limits of fossil fuels, we are fast approaching the limits of certain elements themselves. Some elements, already rare, are quickly being used up in production of microchips, flat-screen TV's, and a variety of other technical components.
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Submission + - Linux powered PS3's simulate blackhole collisions (reghardware.co.uk)

Maestro485 writes: Astrophysicist Gaurav Khanna is using 16 Playstation 3's running Linux to simulate collisions between two black holes. From TFA:

"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.

Project details available here.

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