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Folding@Home about to hit a Petaflop

Earlier today Folding@home was at 905 Teraflops. Soon it should hit a Petaflop. The Playstation 3 was used in this project for one reason and one reason only. That is to help cure the worlds worse diseases through its super processing power.

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Published: 926 days 15 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3

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kingofps3 - 926 days 15 hours ago

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Wow! A Petaflop! Thats a thousand trillion floating point operations per second. AMAZING PS!!!

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Lord Anubis - 926 days 15 hours ago

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It is amazing. The best part that all of that is in for a humanitarian benefits :)

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novaIS350 - 926 days 15 hours ago

3 - I just bought a 2nd PS3

I just bought a second PS3 for the living room (best blu-ray/dvd player). Now I have 2 PS3's and 2 PC's running F@H when I'm not using them. I my power bill still looks the same.

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gta_cb - 924 days 16 hours ago

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seriously? as i swear there was info on the PS3 using more power while running this program so obviously your bill must go up...

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peksi - 926 days 12 hours ago

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I don't think they'd wanna do 100% cpu load :) That would ramp up the power consumption and nobody wants that 24/7.

I suppose seti @ home is similar to that? Using more like idle performance etc.

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deep - 926 days 4 hours ago

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They dont work out how many TF based on that. It's all relative, and they work out by the types of calculations the PS3 is doing. They had to downsize the number for the PS3 a couple of months ago, because it was out of proportion to PC's (mainly due to the ps3 doing specialized and genereal calculations)

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warch1ld - 926 days 14 hours ago

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That's great news. Imagine what those numbers will be at if the PS3 can manage the install base of the PS1 and PS2...

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gta_cb - 924 days 16 hours ago

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pretty impressive i must say, although when these killer games come out i spose folding@home will get used less...

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sonarus - 926 days 13 hours ago

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Yea if the PS3 hits 10million i estimate at least 100,000 people folding at once. I mean if that wnt help find the cure for cancer what will

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Ignorant Fanboy - 926 days 13 hours ago

7 - Will folding at home cure my disfigured fingers?

I dont have cancer, so it wouldnt help me out there.

But if it could save a life, count me in.

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Eldon3 - 926 days 13 hours ago

8 - Team 61588

Show some support for you favorite gaming news site. Join the N4G team (61588). Its for a good cause!

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omfg_111 - 926 days 11 hours ago

8.1 - done!

my online id is : keinGeld

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Weed - 926 days 12 hours ago

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I always wondered what came after tera... now I know.

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GuCCi512 - 926 days 12 hours ago

10 - thats crazy

i do folding @ home most of the time i have 7 work units done so far

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Fanboys are gay - 926 days 4 hours ago

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folding @ home is a waste of energy i bet nothing will ever come out of it, it should be called increase global warming even more so @ home

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deep - 926 days 4 hours ago

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Have you done any research to back up that claim? ie. that folding is useless? Have you done as much research as all the scientific programs and professors supporting this? I expect not.

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Arkham - 926 days 2 hours ago

11.2 - "Fanboys are gay":

Go kick another puppy, Cupcake.

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Armyless - 926 days 2 hours ago

12 - Folding@Home is an incredibly useful research tool.

Join the most powerful "distributed computing" cause today!

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timmyp53 - 925 days 21 hours ago

13 - nice .... i dont fold much but i fold on the weekend when im not playing games....

like when i have to wash clothes or go to the supermarket for my mom or go to church. Wow... a Petaflop! I didnt even complete one working unit.... its sad i play videogames too much to stop but hey at least i did half a wu....right ?

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GameJunkieJim - 925 days 16 hours ago

14 - Well done Sony Fans.

This is pretty selfless and I applaud Sony for making this possible.

@Fanboys - Even if nothing comes of it, running the PS3 24/7 won't hurt the environment as much as say, a refrigerator.
Even if nothing comes from the project at all, it's still an effort and efforts deserve praise as well. I don't have a PS3 yet but I fold on my quad core, my P4, my P2, and my XBox (Linux mod).

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gta_cb - 924 days 16 hours ago

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cool, well done.

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