This is freaking awesome . I was check out some content boards last night at the Folding Forums at Stanford , a grouping that tag theFolding at menage covering . You know , that ’s the software that run away on Sony PS3 or PS2 play cabinet , all associate up over the cyberspace and using their spare cps to facilitate the university cognitive operation huge sum of Alzheimers research data ? To my astonishment , I give away that a small legion of 13,000 PS3s running the Folding at Home app bill for most of the computing power in the project , amounting to about 56 percent ( PS3s = 316 measuredTFLOPS ) of the total .
On mediocre , between the superfast and superslow PCs , 159,033 PC are only doing about half that much . ( 151 TFLOPS ) . fundamentally , 13,000 PS3s have just made the Folding at Home Project the fastest distributed computing projection on the satellite , ever . ( I trust it used to be SETI @ rest home , which was something like280 TFLOPS . ) This also means the PS3 meet Stanford professorVijay Pande’sexpected one - calendar month goal in one day . ( We ’ll update this post with confirmation once Dr. Pande gets back to us . )
The project just needs about 18,000 more PS3s participate to make the Folding at Home undertaking the first distribute compute labor to hit a Petaflop . To put that into linear perspective , the JapaneseMDGRAPE-3 , RIKEN ’s supercomputer , has about a Petaflop of computing ability .
And the potential goes on from there . There are 2 million PS3s in the wild , and over 100 million PS2s shipped thus far . PS3 owners , what are you waiting for ? Get the word out to other PS3 owners . Let ’s aid cure Alzheimer ’s disease .
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