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.

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Re:GPU folding seems more interesting

[darthnoodles]

If you click through some of the links on the Folding@Home site, you'll find that they were originally using Nvidia processors; but, found they got much higher performance with their code on the ATI processors. Therefore they decided to concentrate their efforts on ATI.

How dare you say something postive about ATi and negative about nVidia!!! Are you the devil's spawn? ATi and everything they do suck because their support for Linux!!11one!!! [/stupid_fanboy_rant]

Seriously though, that is quite interesting that the ATi cards performed so much better. I'm curious as to why. Excuse me while I go read up on the Stanford pages.