Parallel Processing For Cardiac Simulations Using an Xbox 360

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 12, 2009 @08:27AM from the just-watch-out-for-a-literal-red-ring-of-death dept.

Foot-in-Mouth writes "Physorg has an article about a researcher, Dr. Simon Scarle at the University of Warwick's WMG Digital Laboratory, who needed to model some cardiological processes. Conventionally, he would requisition time on a university parallel-processing computer or use a network of PCs. However, Dr. Scarle's work history included gaming industry experience as a software engineer at a company associated with Microsoft Games Studio. His idea was that researchers could use Xbox 360s as an inexpensive parallel computing platform due to the console's hefty parallel processing-enabled GPU. He said, 'Although major reworking of any previous code framework is required, the Xbox 360 is a very easy platform to develop for and this cost can easily be outweighed by the benefits in gained computational power and speed, as well as the relative ease of visualization of the system.'"

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Hmm... by TheBilgeRat · 2009-09-12 08:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Will you have to be an XboxLive Gold member to get this service?
Re:Because it's an advetorial, perhaps? by Silas+is+back · 2009-09-12 10:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

+1 Insightful

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Re:Why not the PS3? by dimeglio · 2009-09-12 11:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

PS/3 fan here. That is such a WASTE of such a fucking awesome machine. Saving lives is such a trivial objective when a PS/3 can bring instead WORLD PEACE! Nice to see a 360 that's actually working. Too bad they had to have it serviced over 9000 times already.

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