Anyone interested in the actual power of the PS3 will be pleased to see how it performs at Folding@Home, introduced in the 1.6 update Folding@Home calculates complex mathematic figures to help scientists around the world. A table showing statistics for Folding@Home users puts the PS3 ahead already, with its 13386 active units producing 328 TFLOPS. That's PS3 machines delivering over 328 trillion floating point operations per second
In comparison, there are 158943 active Windows machines that are currently outputting 151 TFLOPS. Less than half the power outputted by the PS3s.
Is anyone on Neowin using Folding@Home on the PS3? How many cycles have you gone past?
View: Folding@Home Stats
In comparison, there are 158943 active Windows machines that are currently outputting 151 TFLOPS. Less than half the power outputted by the PS3s.
Is anyone on Neowin using Folding@Home on the PS3? How many cycles have you gone past?
View: Folding@Home Stats
Now it even has a mouse:
that's a bad comparison, most people are using their older pc ( < 1.5.ghz ) to do folding, not usually their "main" pcs, so no wonder the TFLOPS is lower
Ten times as many PCs are still producing half the processing power of the PS3s. That's still a great statistic for the PS3's power, and more than anything, shows that by contributing to the project, Sony have dramatically increased the pace of the project.
No matter which side of the fence you're sitting on, this is a good thing.
Atleast some people on here don't just think about themselves
I'm contributing to this project as well on my ps3. Atleast I can say i'm helping cure cancer somewhat
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