SlashGear Japan
We’ve all heard about the Folding at Home application that will run on PS3’s. We’ve also heard some wild claims as to how much power the PS3’s Cell processor can really pack. The guys over at Gizmodo have been tracking some numbers, and the results are quite shocking.
As much as I don’t care for the PS3 as a gaming console, I will admit, it has a lot of power. Here’s something to think about, there are about 159,033 PC’s connected to the Folding at Home project, and only 13,000 PS3’s. The small number of PS3’s connected are accounting for over half, that’s 56 percent of the computing power.
If you’re wondering how much computing power that amounts to; the PS3’s account for 316 TFLOPS. That’s just incredible. This lifted the Folding at Home project to the fastest distributed computing project around. At this rate, it won’t be long before the project is measured in PFLOPS instead of TFLOPS.
Breaking: PS3 Folding: PS3 Triples Folding At Home’s Computing Power to Over 500 TFLOPS..PFLOPS in Spitting Range [via Gizmodo]
5 Responses to “Just how much power did the PS3 add to the Folding at Home project?”
TheShoe23 March 24, 2007
Well, I guess I’ll be the first to comment on this because it is a positive article about the PS3. I think that its spectacular that the PS3’s power is being put to use for the good of everyone.
I think it would be hilarious if the Xbot PS3 hater I saw in Game Crazy today gets cured of some disease with the help of the console he hates so much
-1Gazbin March 25, 2007
What a crock. This is just hype being spewed by Sony & supported by press people who dont know anything about the program being used.
How long have the PC’s your comparing been in service? The answer is many many Years – your comparing PC’s from universities & students connected to the Folding at Home project for the past seven years. My Compaq EVO D510 has been plugged into this since I purchased it five years ago and its just a PIV 1.6GHz.
-2CK March 25, 2007
Gazbin, you’re an idiot. Go take a look at the Stanford University folding site and read some of the comments by the coders and folding community which back up those numbers, and come back when you’re not spouting complete crap.
At the moment you just sound like a bitter Xbox/Wii fanboy.
+1Grover March 25, 2007
Gazbin is a sad example of all the PS3 haters out there. Such silly unjustified commentary. Researchers have been saying for years, that the Cell CPU design outperforms any current CPU technology by about 20-40 fold. Now that people are seeing the results, they have some sort of console envy happening – is it any wonder that Nintendo and MS have signed up with IBM to make Cell based consoles for their following generation.
+1http://www.prophet.net/quotes/.....11760eba28
Yes.. all you fanboys out there.. even your favourite company is going to the Cell too.
Guest March 25, 2007
fanboys are fanboys, they live and play by their religious… overtone.
Neutral