While every little bit does help, the Wii cannot even maintain a stable browser at the moment. People in this project are going to want to be familiar with how the technology works, not have to see how powerful they can make it before it fries the GPU.
On the other hand, maybe we could get the manual version? Ya know, where the user gets to unfold it? I imagine that would be a childs favorite thing for about...5 minutes, then its back to just waving the controller wildly at particles and clicking the A button a lot.
No, its not powerful enough. If you look at the stats from Stanford, you see that PS3's have done more than computers already, and its been 2 days :D. Heck, Im running it on my PS3 right now.
What's the big idea with Folding@home anyway? Can someone explain how exactly it helps cure cancer or whatever it does? How does a machine running it do anything?
What's the big idea with Folding@home anyway? Can someone explain how exactly it helps cure cancer or whatever it does? How does a machine running it do anything?channtheman1
basically, they use all the combined idle PS3s cell processors and create one huge super computer which allows them to process all sorts of science and stuff, and create cures for caner and things of the like.
[QUOTE="channtheman1"]What's the big idea with Folding@home anyway? Can someone explain how exactly it helps cure cancer or whatever it does? How does a machine running it do anything?thisisjosh
basically, they use all the combined idle PS3s cell processors and create one huge super computer which allows them to process all sorts of science and stuff, and create cures for caner and things of the like. oh, okay thanks for clearing that up. Now that I know what it is, I don't think the Wii would do a whole lot since it's not very powerful, and it sounds like from what others are saying that whatever is running it needs to be pretty powerful.
[QUOTE="channtheman1"]What's the big idea with Folding@home anyway? Can someone explain how exactly it helps cure cancer or whatever it does? How does a machine running it do anything?thisisjosh
basically, they use all the combined idle PS3s cell processors and create one huge super computer which allows them to process all sorts of science and stuff, and create cures for caner and things of the like.WTF is caner?
[QUOTE="thisisjosh"][QUOTE="channtheman1"]What's the big idea with Folding@home anyway? Can someone explain how exactly it helps cure cancer or whatever it does? How does a machine running it do anything?thisisjosh
basically, they use all the combined idle PS3s cell processors and create one huge super computer which allows them to process all sorts of science and stuff, and create cures for caner and things of the like.WTF is caner? WTF?
[QUOTE="thisisjosh"][QUOTE="channtheman1"]What's the big idea with Folding@home anyway? Can someone explain how exactly it helps cure cancer or whatever it does? How does a machine running it do anything?thisisjosh
basically, they use all the combined idle PS3s cell processors and create one huge super computer which allows them to process all sorts of science and stuff, and create cures for caner and things of the like.WTF is caner? He meant 'cancer'
[QUOTE="thisisjosh"][QUOTE="channtheman1"]What's the big idea with Folding@home anyway? Can someone explain how exactly it helps cure cancer or whatever it does? How does a machine running it do anything?thisisjosh
basically, they use all the combined idle PS3s cell processors and create one huge super computer which allows them to process all sorts of science and stuff, and create cures for caner and things of the like.WTF is caner?Um...why are you posting a question reply to yourself?
[QUOTE="thisisjosh"][QUOTE="channtheman1"]What's the big idea with Folding@home anyway? Can someone explain how exactly it helps cure cancer or whatever it does? How does a machine running it do anything?channtheman1
basically, they use all the combined idle PS3s cell processors and create one huge super computer which allows them to process all sorts of science and stuff, and create cures for caner and things of the like. oh, okay thanks for clearing that up. Now that I know what it is, I don't think the Wii would do a whole lot since it's not very powerful, and it sounds like from what others are saying that whatever is running it needs to be pretty powerful.
there's other causes besides just folding@home. here's a bit of minor ownage, since this is just a wii forum no one will notice.. but considering the wii is outselling the ps3 by so much, if all the wiis had folding@home going, collectively they would overpower the ps3s that are going. i'm actually willing to bet my own money on that. f@h doesnt use a lot of resources.
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