Congrats Folding@Home PS3 now most powerful ever

Client statistics by OS

OS Type Current TFLOPS* Active CPUs Total CPUs
Windows 151 158987 1624628
Mac OS X/PowerPC 7 8706 95328
Mac OS X/Intel 7 2700 7192
Linux 35 24949 215658
GPU 41 691 2181
PLAYSTATION®3 304 12394 13329
Total 545 208427 1958316

The PS3 with only 12,394 people have output 304 Terraflops in only 2 days. That exceeds all other clients COMBINED including 160,000 PC's.

The CELL has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt it's potential. If all 2 million people with a PS3 ran this software we would be done with the folding project in one DAY instead of YEARS.

m sorry that finding a cure to one of the biggest diseases known to man dsnt entertain you more.-Holtz-

WHAT A BORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1orangepeel1972

Sunday Night Foldathon

http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?message.uid=28397606#U28397606  

Thats great. But does the Internet have to be hooked up to the ps3 all the time for it to work.babenjorge

Thanks.  That's great to know.  Ps3 is quite a machine. 

I would like to know what the PC client requires and what the average specs are for the PC Folding@Home client. Also does anyone know if on the PC client you can still use your computer while running the client?GIJames248

This folding thing has me confused. Is it so popular because people want to help with whatever research is being done or is there something else? People seem to be building whole computers just for folding, and I can't believe it would just be because they want to help.

If that is the case however, that's pretty cool.

EDIT: Wow that's weird, I didn't expect there to be another thread addressing my exact question.  Nevermind. 

am going to do a one work unit a day at least it cool to see the globe with all this dots around the world folding :)

GREAT ive been running my ps3 24/7 sence i got the update folding @ home rocks im going to run it every dayCrazy87

WHAT A BORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1orangepeel1972

[QUOTE="Crazy87"]GREAT ive been running my ps3 24/7 sence i got the update folding @ home rocks im going to run it every dayDeihmos

Any particular reason to be insulting people today Deihmos?  Sleep on the wrong side of the bed?

[QUOTE="Crazy87"]GREAT ive been running my ps3 24/7 sence i got the update folding @ home rocks im going to run it every dayDeihmos

[QUOTE="Deihmos"][QUOTE="Crazy87"]GREAT ive been running my ps3 24/7 sence i got the update folding @ home rocks im going to run it every dayUntoldDreams

Any particular reason to be insulting people today Deihmos?  Sleep on the wrong side of the bed?

How is that an insult? I was just making sure you know how much this will end up costing but it depends if you pay your own bills or not. So if you live at home you wouldn't care and if you are a certain age where else would you live? I tell you some people can be so touchy...I lived with my mom at one point.

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[QUOTE="Deihmos"][QUOTE="Crazy87"]GREAT ive been running my ps3 24/7 sence i got the update folding @ home rocks im going to run it every dayDeihmos

Any particular reason to be insulting people today Deihmos? Sleep on the wrong side of the bed?

How is that an insult? I was just making sure you know how much this will end up costing but it depends if you pay your own bills or not. So if you live at home you wouldn't care and if you are a certain age where else would you live? I tell you some people can be so touchy...I lived with my mom at one point.

am going to do a one work unit a day at least it cool to see the globe with all this dots around the world folding :)

 

commmaando

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[QUOTE="Deihmos"][QUOTE="Crazy87"]GREAT ive been running my ps3 24/7 sence i got the update folding @ home rocks im going to run it every dayDeihmos

Any particular reason to be insulting people today Deihmos? Sleep on the wrong side of the bed?

How is that an insult? I was just making sure you know how much this will end up costing but it depends if you pay your own bills or not. So if you live at home you wouldn't care and if you are a certain age where else would you live? I tell you some people can be so touchy...I lived with my mom at one point.

Oh please quit hiding your rear tail behind words. Its clearly denigration at its finest to insinuate someone is dependent on their "mommy".

You simplly enjoy insulting people. Admit it.

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[QUOTE="Deihmos"][QUOTE="Crazy87"]GREAT ive been running my ps3 24/7 sence i got the update folding @ home rocks im going to run it every dayjnhay

Any particular reason to be insulting people today Deihmos? Sleep on the wrong side of the bed?

How is that an insult? I was just making sure you know how much this will end up costing but it depends if you pay your own bills or not. So if you live at home you wouldn't care and if you are a certain age where else would you live? I tell you some people can be so touchy...I lived with my mom at one point.

Anyways back on the relevent topic.

If progression of the PS3 folding proceeds (319 teraflops at the moment) it really might be possible to shorten years of resesarch into weeks.

A petaflop is an astronimical amount of processing power.

Consider Blue Gene the fastest machine on earth can do about 350 Terflops then the PS3 network is quickly approaching its processing power.

Cool I guess. But I wont run it. Electricity is too expensive to run a ps3 night and day.Radiozo

 @Radiozo If you press the "triangle" button while you have Folding@home selected in the cross media bar you can set it to run automatically after a certain period of PS3 nonuse. I'm like you where I usually have my PS3 off, but I have folding at home set to automatically run after 10 minutes of idle time. Yesterday I came back after eating dinner and it was there crunching away when I came back. 

its funnay that at the end of the day if we do find a cure for cancer, we can say, THE PS3 cured cancer and not Chuck Norris' Tears.8)lennygundam14

[QUOTE="Radiozo"]Cool I guess. But I wont run it. Electricity is too expensive to run a ps3 night and day.EmperorSupreme

@Radiozo If you press the "triangle" button while you have Folding@home selected in the cross media bar you can set it to run automatically after a certain period of PS3 nonuse. I'm like you where I usually have my PS3 off, but I have folding at home set to automatically run after 10 minutes of idle time. Yesterday I came back after eating dinner and it was there crunching away when I came back.

Well I guess. But I usually turn it off when im not using it. 

[QUOTE="lennygundam14"]its funnay that at the end of the day if we do find a cure for cancer, we can say, THE PS3 cured cancer and not Chuck Norris' Tears.8)The_Tombo

yeah but too bad he has never cried