PS3 Helps Folding@Home Reach World Record Status

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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Re:Impressive!

[JK_the_Slacker]

It already tanked. At one point, PS3s alone were responsible for over a petaflop of folding power.

As can be seen on the Stanford website, we're still pumping out over a petaflop... but, it's gone way down in the past month. It fluctuates, though... it's basically 40 PS3s to a teraflop. One console pulling out makes a significant difference.