With the one month anniversary of the PS3’s contribution to Folding@Home it has now been announced that any one moment Folding@Home is producing 700 Teraflops of processing power, 400 of which is currently contributed by PS3 consoles. Over 250,000 PS3 consoles have signed up to the service since March. "The PS3 turnout has been amazing, greatly exceeding our expectations and allowing us to push our work dramatically forward," said Vijay Pande, associate professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and Folding@home program lead.
It’s not just the PS3 that has contributed to a jump in power, PC usage has grown 20% this month as awareness of the scheme is bolstered by the PS3’s success. "Thanks to PS3, we have performed simulations in the first few weeks that would normally take us more than a year to calculate. We are now gearing up for new simulations that will continue our current studies of Alzheimer's and other diseases," Vijay Pande added.
The project is also making a new software update available for PS3 owners. The 1.1 version improves visibility of donor locations on the globe, folding calculation speed and protein viewing. There's also additional language support, help screen hints, and improved donor-name length and character handling.
News source: Folding@Home
It’s not just the PS3 that has contributed to a jump in power, PC usage has grown 20% this month as awareness of the scheme is bolstered by the PS3’s success. "Thanks to PS3, we have performed simulations in the first few weeks that would normally take us more than a year to calculate. We are now gearing up for new simulations that will continue our current studies of Alzheimer's and other diseases," Vijay Pande added.
The project is also making a new software update available for PS3 owners. The 1.1 version improves visibility of donor locations on the globe, folding calculation speed and protein viewing. There's also additional language support, help screen hints, and improved donor-name length and character handling.
News source: Folding@Home
You should get a more descriptive and functional nickname – like Sh¡t-for-Brains. Then everyone will know what to expect when post.
Probly not but it is fun to believe vs asking others to face dismal realities. Just like you can't stop me from believing in multiple gods. How is your Seti working now? This is another sprocket in a profit machine.
To those who say this will probably not lead to a cure that isn't the goal of this program, this program will provide us with information to further facilitate research in particular areas and also help in speeding up research in protein related fields.
oh well, guess it's a risk we're taking..
i like the response though. ++ for red herring =)
Will you make such comment again?
Hmm?
hahahhahaha........ I knew I'd come back to see an assinine post.
Atomic research huh.......wow, you should go back to your educational facility and demand a refund. Smack your teacher for letting you out in the wild...
hahahhahaha........ I knew I'd come back to see an assinine post.
Atomic research huh.......wow, you should go back to your educational facility and demand a refund. Smack your teacher for letting you out in the wild...
That was my post folks.....didn't see that I wasn't signed in.
Protein folding games... somehow it doesn't seem like it would be as much fun as it sounds
Same as most software on a non-Windows platform.
I reckon that 25,000 PS3s providing 400 Tflps of computational power counts as a super cluster...
Its more than 4 times faster for this app!
Might as well make good use of the console....no games do at this point!
http://folding.stanford.edu/papers.html
But I don't think you have the IQ for it.
I'm running the "no nonsense" (console) version of FAH, and I'm just wondering if there's any way to minimize it to tray. As it stands, it only minimizes to Taskbar, which is quite annoying.
You're talking about the version for Windows, right?
You're talking about the version for Windows, right?
Yes.
I just wish I could run it in System Tray. It takes up space needlessly on my Taskbar.
"FAH504-Console.exe" - http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/r...504-Console.exe
Did you just install it? The dos prompt goes away after you restart, from then on out it only runs as a service.
Did you just install it? The dos prompt goes away after you restart, from then on out it only runs as a service.
Negative. I tried it. It's not a Service.
Try it yourself and see.
the xbox doesn't have folding at home, so you would need a fodlign at home written to make use of the 360 first, then compare the performance of an equam number of PS3 and 360's.
and eventhen it's not proof. performance isn't just measure as FLOPS as such. Fact is that THIS program is one of very few situations where you are actually able to use nearly all the power and cores of the PS3, because it's a relatively simple job, somethign the PS3 Not-quite-real-cores can do, and do pretty well.
But this job is VERY different from doign regular computing tasks for games or more advanced tasks where you aren' t just analyzing and number crunching multiple threads. An area where the PS3 isn't doign so very well. Just because one type of CPU does one thign well, doesn't meanit does everythgin better than another, in fact usually it's quite the opposite. wich is the case with the cell. This is the one thing it's good at, but used in a game, it's a lot weaker in computing than the 360, it will grow better as they learnto utilize and program for this special setup, but for games they'll never be able to tap the full power of the cell.
The team number is 10448
But in all seriousness, I think it's great, and by far the best use for a PS3.
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