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PS3 Client for Folding@Home Debuts, ATI GPU Version Soon
eliot1785 writes "Stanford's Folding@Home project is reporting that Sony debuted a Folding@Home client for the PlayStation 3 today in Germany. Researchers hope to use the power of the PS3's Cell processor to greatly expand the number of FLOPS of which their network is capable. F@H also announced today that they will release a client capable of running on ATI graphics processors. With these two new developments, F@H hopes to raise the total power of their distributed computing network to 1-10 petaflops. At the upper end of that target, the network would be faster than any current supercomputer, at least in terms of FLOPS."
Reader TommyBear points out a collection of papers showing scientific advances made by the F@H researchers.
Care to expand on that or are you simply to aghast to reply with anything but insults?
There are around 200-250 companies building/using Cell based systems - defense, aerospace, medical, and media companies. I guess you've never bothered to even browse IBM's vast amount of Cell information on their developer site?
>Given that the Cell's programming paradigm is so vastly different from traditional CPUs,
>Even John Carmack...
Boggle.
Grow the fuck up guy, you want to talk about real world advances in chip technology and you are citing some guy who writes x86 pc shooters?
There are people in this world to defer to on modern CPU design and coding. John Carmack is not one of them.