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PS3 Folding Update Coming Mañana, Adds More Speed
Just a quick note about the PlayStation 3 Folding @ Home app that's been all the rage lately—you know, because there aren't very many actual games to play on the system. Tomorrow Sony's releasing an update that both increases folding performance (nice) and improves the user location display map so you can see where you and others are doing their 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.
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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: More » -
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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 »
