PS3 & Folding@Home reach 2 Petaflops

mephixto - 573 days 19 hours ago

At least we are trying to help

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Real Gambler - 573 days 18 hours ago

If you're not folding, what have YOU done to help getting rid of those stupid diseases... Sure, folding may never find a cure, but at least it's a step in the right direction. It's just one of the many ways to do it. You can also give money tons of money to science, and still they may not find a cure.

And you can do nothing, and hope you will never get cancer, parkinson, or all those stupid diseases that should have been cured by now. I do hope you're lucky!!!

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Cwalat - 573 days 18 hours ago

it was a joke lol..
i fold every day on my PS3... minimum of 30 min while i watch TV and eat something..

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sonarus - 573 days 15 hours ago

I need to get back to folding. Used to fold every time i wasn't playing ps3. Used to leave my ps3 on for days. Avg 10 days before i would get some random freeze or some game update or some sort to make me restart.

Sure feels good to know you have a reliable console:D

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The_Firestarter - 573 days 15 hours ago

"Sure feels good to know you have a reliable console:D"

lol So true! The PS3 is built pretty tough, I agree.

Hmmm, I wonder why folding@home never made it to the 360... *cough, cough*

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MicroDeath SoftStar - 573 days 11 hours ago

Curing stuff is great and all but leaving my ps3 on none stop uses electricity which causes global warming WHICH IS KILLING OUR PLANET. I would rather die of cancer then help take down my planet with me so i might have a chance to survive .
PS no disrespect to anyone suffering for a terminal illness

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funkeystu - 573 days 11 hours ago

Bah - Global warming has never killed anyone - fold on I say!! :p

I think the data has been used in quite a few research papers, all of which can be used to better understand various conditions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Cwalat - 573 days 9 hours ago

got 2 disagrees back up there ^

i said; "it was a jk, i fold minimum of 30 min every day"

that was not a statement for you to judge, that was me saying what i do....

i will officially never understand this website or the sick ppl in here..

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Merovee - 573 days 5 hours ago

1-The planet is not alive... therefore it cannot be killed.

2-What exactly is it that makes you think the current planetary temperature is the best climate for life?

3-The power consumption of a PS3 can be offset by replacing 4 lightbulbs with CFL bulbs and/or purchasing block energy from renewable sources (an option for a good number of people in many areas).

4-Distributed computing is 5 times more energy efficient than by having only reserved computers perform the tasks.

5-Even if global warming wipes out the human population there will still be life on earth, it just won't be yours, this in turn would cause an immediate drop in greenhouse gas emmissions,far more significant than the Kyoto accord so STFU.

6-It's my planet I'll kill it if I want to.

7-If your so concerned with how much impact technological use that is not directly needed for human life has on the planet WHY ARE YOU ON A SOCIAL SITE POSTING ADDED INFORMATION TO AN ALWAYS ON SERVER THAT USES MORE POWER THAN A PS3? Oh yeah, because your a hypocrite.

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ban fans - 573 days 5 hours ago

I agree with most of your points except 1 and 6.

1 - "The planet is not alive" - While the actual rock and elements that make up our planet are not alive, the life on this planet as a whole can be viewed as a single organism. If a certain organism dies out completely (like trees), all others will follow, just as in a human, if the brain dies, the body soon will follow. In another point of view, our planet is alive because it is active geologically; the moving and shifting within the core of the planet and weather. Some astrological bodies, such as our own moon, are considered "dead", due to its lack of activity, and thus can not support any (known) type of life (without external support) because it does not "renew" itself.

6 - This is not your planet. We all share it. You can even say we rent it, as geologically, we are not even a blip on the screen. We do not have the right to destroy our planet even if we have the ability to do so. While I don't think you intended it that way, your comment comes across as being very short sighted, arrogant, and selfish.

But, as I said, I do agree with most of your points. If we can further medical science with this technology, that is a good thing. There are far worse global warming offenders than electrical consumption.

And MDSS - you have obviously not seen some one close to you suffer from the diseases that these scientists are working to prevent / cure. I have lost several family members to cancer, and it is not pretty. There is no reason why we can't stop these diseases AND cut back on greenhouse gases at the same time. We all should do our part on ALL fronts. If you felt as strongly about it as your statement suggests, you would not be on your computer right now wasting time and electricity with a video game forum.

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yanikins111 - 570 days 11 hours ago

Global warming has never killed anybody?

Katrina.

Sure cyclones.... sorry, hurricanes are a fact of life, but they are becoming more frequent and severe. Hell didnt a typhoon just wipe out 50 thousand people in burma? Yes these things have always happened, but most scientists agree that they are becoming more frequent.

Anywho, my only gripe with folding at home is the idea of networking hundreds of thousands of cell processors. The same processors that run advanced Artificial Intelligence simulations in labs. <shivers>

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shine1396 - 573 days 13 hours ago

that's actually quite a good idea...you should bring it up in the playstation forumz...or even on the blog...

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SiLeNt KNighT - 573 days 12 hours ago

i remember that. for that last week or so the work units have been taking about a day and a half. makes it less satisfying when it takes almost 2 full days of actual folding to get just 1 unit done. doesnt matter in the main scheme of things because we are still helping, just a mind thing. ive been having a lot of freezing problems with f@h lately though. completely freezes my ps3 and i have to hold down the power button for a few seconds to make it restart. if ms would just make the software for sony and sony made ms's hardware all would be well.

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GutZ31 - 573 days 13 hours ago

I'll teach you how to fold clothes if you pay me $2080.

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THUNDERMARE - 573 days 11 hours ago

I'm waiting for the day that you discover that you have a brain tumor. You, then, ran to your local Bestbuy or EBgame buy 20 PS3 and start Folding like no tomorrow...

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Mr Bun - 573 days 9 hours ago

You are an ass, but it made me laugh

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Merovee - 573 days 5 hours ago

Maybe we could dedicate some F@H time to curing Xbox's RROD bug and Hollander could stop belly-aching and play a game.

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ban fans - 573 days 5 hours ago

I really hope that is a joke.

And if you spend more time playing games than time spent NOT playing games, you really need to get out more!

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issa3032 - 573 days 22 hours ago

Well I rounded a little just to make the numbers cleaner. The exact proportion is 31.5 times.

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Amp - 573 days 16 hours ago

http://folding.stanford.edu... your PS3 can run this program, look at your cross media bar. Everybody with a chronic disease thanks you:)

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juuken - 573 days 10 hours ago

Sounds very interesting! Think I'll check it out.

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