Blasting zombies may seem to have little to do with serious research, but video game hardware is helping scientists in a variety of ways including helping them to unravel the mysteries of the brain. Specialist programmers have long been repurposing the graphics processing units that power action-packed scenes in games for non-graphics tasks. Now recent advances have opened up GPU-based supercomputing to non-specialists.
Why Labs Love Gaming Hardware
May 10, 2010