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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.
That's like... 10,000,000,000,000,000 instances of taxpayers dollars being wasted! How many more times does this have to flop before it's canceled?
Imagine what would happen if they could also harness Diebold's flops...
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Naw... the PS3 is already panned for having too many features... if it cures cancer people are just going to throw up there hands in frustration and go buy a Wii.
All kidding aside... if you had a PS3 would you run this in down time?
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain
You are so right! Don't you just hate how these manufactures show up at owners houses and put a gun to their heads and force them to run computationally expensive apps on their hardware!
Ohhhh!!! Makes me sooooo mad!!!! Someone mod me up!!!
Oh wait, they don't...
It's more like you buy $300 worth of coal every year and burn it with no particular result. :)
I use nuclear-power electricity
Not as silly as if the $300 donated to cancer research was caused by the $300 worth of coal that you burnt in order to pay for the $300 donated to cancer research to prevent cancer caused by the $300 worth of coal that you burnt in order to pay for the $300 donated to cancer research caused by the $300 worth of coal that you burnt in order to pay for the $300 donated to cancer research caused by the $300 worth of coal that you burnt in order to pay for the $300 donated to cancer research caused by the $300 worth of coal that you burnt in order to pay for the $300 donated to cancer research.
:)
I HATE SILLY LOOPS
"Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!" - Alfred E. Neuman
I would assume whoever wants the massive computation is willing to pay a notable amount to anyone who allows their PS3 to be hooked up to it for a signficant time per month. Perhaps Sony could remind people of the money they "get back" after the high price?
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
when little Jonny's monther made him turn off his game and come upstairs for dinner.
Oh well.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Now you can use it for both!
"I forgot my mantra."
Not only does it cure cancer, if you run Folding@Home on your PS3 24/7, you can also heat your entire house!
That $800 price tag starting to pay for itself already!
sweet 3 in a row, IM ON A tROLL TODAY!!!!
disclaimer: I've been known to store numbers in my ass for which to dig out when quantities are required.