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Just Friday we were gushing that the Folding@Home project, with the help of a few Spartanesque PS3s, had topped 500 teraflops. Apparently, that was too good to be true. Just now, as approximately 30k PS3s were about to push Folding over a PFLOP (1000 TFLOPS), Folding staff at Stanford seem to have reestimated the PS3's power of calculation to be about 50% less than previously thought. No matter. We're not that far off from PFLOPing, according to the FAQ, if you all get off your asses and buy PS3s for Folding. More »
Breaking: PS3 Folding@Home TFLOP Rating Demoted by 50%, PFLOPS Still Possible
Just Friday we were gushing that the Folding@Home project, with the help of a few Spartanesque PS3s, had topped 500 teraflops. Apparently, that was too good to be true. Just now, as approximately 30k PS3s were about to push Folding over a PFLOP (1000 TFLOPS), Folding staff at Stanford seem to have reestimated the PS3's power of calculation to be about 50% less than previously thought. No matter. We're not that far off from PFLOPing, according to the FAQ, if you all get off your asses and buy PS3s for Folding. More »
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Breaking: PS3 Triples Folding At Home's Computing Power to Over 500 TFLOPS..PFLOPS in Spitting Range
This is freaking amazing. I was checking out some message boards last night at the Folding Forums at Stanford, a group that tracks the Folding at Home application. You know, that's the software that runs on Sony PS3 or PS2 gaming consoles, all linking up over the Internet and using their spare cycles to help the university process vast amounts of Alzheimers research data? To my astonishment, I discovered that a small legion of 13,000 PS3s running the Folding at Home app account for most of the computing power in the project, amounting to about 56 percent (PS3s = 316 measured TFLOPS) of the total. More »
3:11 PM on Fri Mar 23 2007
By Brian Lam
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Latest by fireemblem555: PS3 update 1.6 has folding at home automatically included, its just a matter of enabling it. i figure sony more »
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Hey there. Just a reminder for you PS3 owners: Now that you're home from work, go download the update version 1.6 that'll let you do many things, including save the world by running Folding @ Home. You know, it's that distributed computing project we showed you live screenshots and videos of last Thursday. I started running it today, and man, that shit makes the PS3 cook. What's cool is that you're gussying up your electricity bill in order to save mankind. That is, while you're not saving mankind in Resistance.
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Reminder: Download the PS3's 1.6 Update and Folding @ Home App
Hey there. Just a reminder for you PS3 owners: Now that you're home from work, go download the update version 1.6 that'll let you do many things, including save the world by running Folding @ Home. You know, it's that distributed computing project we showed you live screenshots and videos of last Thursday. I started running it today, and man, that shit makes the PS3 cook. What's cool is that you're gussying up your electricity bill in order to save mankind. That is, while you're not saving mankind in Resistance. More »
12:55 AM on Fri Mar 23 2007
By Brian Lam
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Latest by gc2488: Hmm, Stanford seems to have reduced by 22% the performance factor for PS3s in their calculation of TFLOPS contributed! more »
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The PS3's Folding at Home app looks twitchy in person, but for the sake of science and humanity, a few epileptic seizures are a small price to pay. The map view is amazing (hit the gallery for some shots.)-B.L. More »
Exclusive: Video of PS3's Folding at Home App Churning Away at Protein
The PS3's Folding at Home app looks twitchy in person, but for the sake of science and humanity, a few epileptic seizures are a small price to pay. The map view is amazing (hit the gallery for some shots.)-B.L. More »
5:10 PM on Thu Mar 15 2007
By Brian Lam
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Latest by Shiver999: Its supposed to by "twitchy", thats the program testing out various folds of the protien arm thingys (ok, so i'm more »
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PS3's Folding at Home: Is the Cell Proc 30 Times More Powerful at Folding than a PC?
Yes, and the PS3 is going to make a big impact. According to that chart, from the Folding at Home by OS stats:1 Gigaflop per PC
3 Gigaflops per Intel Mac
30 Gigaflops of Folding Power per PS3 More »
3:53 PM on Thu Mar 15 2007
By Brian Lam
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Liveblog: PS3's Folding at Home is Coming
Hi there. I'm at Stanford, and we're about to see the first demo of the PS3's Folding at Home app. Folding's Dr Vijay Pande and SCEA's Jack Tretton are presenting. More in a bit, as I update this post while I go along. More »
2:46 PM on Thu Mar 15 2007
By Brian Lam
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Latest by Worf: The other question is - how many people will want to keep their PS3 active all the time for this? more »
