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PS3 Helps Folding@Home Reach World Record Status

Posted by Zonk on from the look-at-me-still-talking-while-there's-science-to-do dept.

mytrip wrote with a note that the PlayStation 3 should be very proud of itself. Sony's monster-powerful console has lifted Stanford's very own distributed computing project (Folding@home) into the record books. "Guinness has apparently certified the project as the world's most powerful distributed computing system. According to a release from Sony, Folding@home topped 1 petaflop last month, meaning that it surpassed a thousand trillion floating point operations per second. By comparison, the well-known SETI@home project has topped out, according to Wikipedia, at around 265 teraflops, or 265 trillion floating point operations a second." There appears to be a team slashdot if you're looking for someone to support. Go fighting 006666!

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  1. Impressive! by seebs · · Score: 4, Funny

    It'll tank once there's some games out. :)

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    1. Re:Impressive! by AuMatar · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, seems like they're safe for a while then.

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  2. Re:Crack BLU-RAY! by TeknoHog · · Score: 3, Funny

    Like any technology, cancer doesn't officially exist until Microsoft innovates it.

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  3. The best department ever by ReverendLoki · · Score: 2, Funny

    from the look-at-me-still-talking-while-there's-science-to-do dept.

    Now this is great. Nice one.

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  4. we did it!!! by insanius · · Score: 3, Funny

    wait a minute....what are we bragging about?....the fact that my ps3 has been idle long enough to decode the humpback whale's genome???....wtf....Hurry Sony and release Uncharted!!!!!!!!......

  5. And I thought by MrCopilot · · Score: 3, Funny

    and here I thought Sony was only Folding@theMarketplace.

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