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Folding @ Home Petaflop Barrier Crossed

Posted by Zonk on from the soon-they-will-take-over-the-world dept.

The official PlayStation blog is reporting that the petaflop barrier has been crossed by the nodes participating in the Folding @ Home project. The article talks about what this means for computer science, and why this awesome amount of computational power was reachable. "Just six months after we launched the program, nearly 600,000 PS3 users have registered. Second, we made several improvements to the application (v 1.2) that helped make the computations more accurate and enabled us to squeeze even more work out of each and every PS3 console -- we went from 450 teraflops to 800 teraflops. These factors, combined with the contribution from all the other platforms, helped us cross the barrier, which happened sometime over the weekend."

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  1. Deep Thought? by JeromeTheMetronome · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster...

    of a cluster?

    --
    My boys will give you the best kind of start, 1400 megatons worth, and you sure as hell won't stop them now.
  2. FUCK ISREAL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ISREAL SUCKS
    I HATE ISREAL
    LET'S BOMB ALL OF THE MIDDLE EAST INCLUDING CHINA AND MAKE AMERICA NUMBER 1.

    ALSO CANUCKS WOULD LOSE A WAR AGAINST THE U.S..

    Haters suck, George W. Bush IS THE MAN!!!!

    Not trolling by the way. Mod this Interesting.