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250,000 PS3s Folding@Home
GamesIndustry.biz reports that over 250,000 users have signed up for the Folding@Home project on the PlayStation 3. The sheer number of users has resulted in '700 teraflops in a single moment', most of which is provided by PS3 users. "'The PS3 turnout has been amazing, greatly exceeding our expectations and allowing us to push our work dramatically forward,' said Vijay Pande, associate professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and Folding@home program lead. 'Thanks to PS3, we have performed simulations in the first few weeks that would normally take us more than a year to calculate. We are now gearing up for new simulations that will continue our current studies of Alzheimer's and other diseases.'" The article notes the software has a new update with some refined functionality and faster processing.
Of course the PS3s are spending the time doing Folding@Home.
It's not like there's any games to play on them.
Tried it but couldn't get past the first boss level.
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What a shame - all those PS3's, and not a single decent game to play on them.
Best laundry sim on the market.
There are 0x40000000 types of people: those who understand 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point, and those who don't.
I guess they're using the same system they use to count the number of PS3's they've sold.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Sony's marketing department.