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- iamrock, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46To join Digg's Folding@Home Team on your PS3:
1. Launch Folding@Home
2. Press the triangle button
3. Select "Identity"
4. Select "Join an existing team"
5. Enter Digg's team number - 47777
To have your PS3 start folding automatically when idle:
1. Highlight the Folding@Home icon on the XMB screen
2. Press the triangle button
3. Select Auto-Start
4. Select the length of time before running - ohmar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+46Turns out that buying a PS3 helps cure cancer. Never thought one could get good karma from owning a console. Neat.
- NeoOfTheSith, on 10/12/2007, -5/+47It may not have a great game selection at this time but it certainly is helping the world out! GG PS3 owners!
- WhereAmI, on 10/12/2007, -6/+45It has done in a few weeks what would normally take more than a year to do? Wow who would have thought the PS3 would be such a help.
- scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35When you consider a CELL PCI-e card costs about US $8,000, the PS3 is a pretty wicked machine for this kind of project.
- Harrison88, on 10/12/2007, -8/+32That would be pretty funny.
"The PlayStation 3, which recently saw sales of just 3 in 2008, cured all forms of cancer this week".
We can dream about the second bit. * Goes off to install Folding@Home on his PS3 * - jacksons98, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27I'm thinking this number is going to be astronomically high in a few years once Sony can get the manufacturing costs and price down. Think how many machines could be working on this in 5 years.
- Paroparo, on 10/12/2007, -26/+46The PS3 has vast flopping power that Sony has only just began to untap. Loosing exclusives and selling slower than the Dreamcast is nothing, next year they're achieving NEGATIVE TRIPLE DIGITS SALES!!!1 ..and cure cancer.
- echonull, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Good to hear -- this processing power is rather impressive. In the end, it's basically physics simulations, and gaming consoles are already specialized to exactly that end.
Props to the PS3, and a disappointed glance over at the 360 and Wii -- why aren't YOU working to cure diseases yet?!
@logicalnoise,
Can you please cite an article pointing out that Folding@Home is indeed coming to at least the 360? I looked around, and found nothing but posts noting how good an idea it'd be.... - geekcomputing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Alzheimer ’s reseach = good stuff, my grandmother has that and its a very horrible disease.
I'm folding on my little amd 3000 64bit. Wont be much but im doing my part.
so far i have 7 WU done. :) about to be 8. - surf314, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22Can you get a tax deduction for this (electricity cost)?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Its not going to be anywhere near as fast...
But still a help to the cause I guess. - logicalnoise, on 10/12/2007, -14/+27the same team is working with MS for an XBOX live client. Soon 360 owners will get to help too.
- spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15I'm no PS3 owner, and the first person to make this into a fanboy issue on this page will officially be declared my Idiot Of The Day.
It'll be pretty amazing when we start seeing real world treatments and cures come about through this huge increase in processing power. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11fanboy troll
- LordZodd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Join Team Digg@home, team ID # 47777, and help the Digg community contribute to Folding@Home.
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47777 - RobotChicken1, on 03/07/2008, -1/+9I personally won't be buying a PS3 until there is a price drop, although this is certainly enticing. And the games are slowly starting to appear that will make the PS3 a viable gaming system.
When I do get one, I'll be sure to put my PS3 to good use and fold like a madman. 1 year to 3 weeks? That's VERY impressive. That's INCREDIBLY impressive. - mal1964, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10son you have used all your allotted time for gaming today.but dad I'm trying to save the world just ten more minutes please.save it after you take the garbage out
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9about a month ago PS3's made up 666 of the total 920 TeraFlops for F@H, good to see theyre still kicking ass
(or, perhaps more accurately, that sony is finally bragging about it, ugh)
http://digg.com/tech_news/Playstation_3_is_Folding_Up_a_Storm_Now_Accounts_for_3_4_of_all_TFLOPS - spucky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If you are interested in learning how to program the Cell, PS3 is a very cheap alternative. It is a very interesting model of heterogeneous processing cores.
It is basically a PowerPC with 6 DSP (like) cores (1 is used by the hypervisor and 1 is disabled to get yields) attached to it along with the Altivec. Since this is interesting to me, $600 is a lot cheaper to learn on than $8000. - lopla, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Oh, the games are coming. So they didn't have a lot of games at launch BIG WHUP is that all you got? Not only that but the games that are in the pipeline will make your beloved 360 look like an Atari2600
- teqonix, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10I've just purchased my own PS3 (mainly as an expensive excuse to replace my v1 PS2 that's giving me DRE's), and have had Folding@home go for just around 12 hours and have already had 1 work unit and about 25% of another one completed. It took my Pc at least 4 times as long. Just crazy.
- Supaman223, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Err.. not so sure if its a good idea on the xbox... with the over heatings in all. Sure it doesnt affect every xbox but there is a lot that do overheat
- unusualbob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@spudnic
the ps3 wu's are bigger, pc sets are around 20,000 frames while ps3's are 400,000 frames. show me where it says anything contradicting that in your link. - spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14The PS3 works on smaller WUs than the PC version, this is because the team see it being run for shorter amounts of time, rather than being left running constantly.
Not criticising the PS3s folding ability, just letting you know that it's not really an accurate comparison.
Before I get dugg down, here's the bit on the folding@home site which says that
http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-PS3.html - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"was xbox live service the only limitation in accomplishing this?"
Everybody has xbox live silver anyway. Thats enough to connect to servers at folding@home with authorized software. - selectodude, on 10/12/2007, -12/+16That's the problem. The Cell BE was built from the ground up to be a FPU monster. F@H is a multithreaded app which was basically looking for a CPU. The Cell fits exactly what they need.
It's not a gaming CPU, it never was made to be one, and it never will be. I have no idea why Sony put it in the PS3.
*DISCLAIMER* I have a PS3 and I love it. - kushed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Every bit helps, I am surprised that it not available for xbox360 yet? was xbox live service the only limitation in accomplishing this?
- BobbyPins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Why don't you see for yourself?
http://folding.stanford.edu/results.html - kingfoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Joining you tonight! I hope I can help.
- Deuterium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Maybe they will even have a cure for virginity that doesn't involve women. You certainly could use that.
- Paranoidmarvin, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11Hell, I'm sure the wii can be of some use (however small!)
- aegis9975, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5>>The PS3 works on smaller WUs than the PC version
This is incorrect, the PS3 WU is 40,000-50,000 frames which is much larger then PC versions. I run F@H on my PS3 and on another machine with an ATI GPU. WU units and the type of data processed varies between the systems, however, categorically the PS3 has larger WUs then the PC. - indy500fan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Yeah, I don't have a PS3 so I do it on my PC. Except I don't fold, I do Einstein@home. May not be as important as folding, but I am sure it helps something.
- spucky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Every bit helps. Alzheimer's is a very difficult disease to deal with and is very difficult and frustrating for the person going through is and a tremendous strain on the family. I certainly hope that my PS3 and 3 other computers (and one from my oldest son who is folding like crazy on a GPU) can help.
- dan00b, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Operating costs are negligible, as you can discover on the Folding@Home site
- vraa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Because BOINC is NOT Folding@Home
Folding@Home is, I believe, the largest distributed computing project to date.
You can run F@H on your PPC laptop, your PS3, your SMP 64bit Linux, your quad-core Windows box, and your ATi GPU.
Hopefully soon your nVidia GPU as well and I don't know about this --- but I can speculate -- your Xbox360. - Linh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'd like to see this for the xbox360... or a ps3 at $300. I would almost buy one just to throw at work to fold all day :) Altho, my money would be better donated most likely....
- vraa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"the same team is working with MS for an XBOX live client. Soon 360 owners will get to help too."
I have no idea where you got that, no one has either confirmed or denied anything.
In fact, it is more plausible to assume otherwise as the Xbox360 suffers from the following issues
1) Many consoles suffer from overheating issues (early versions anyways).
2) The PPC's aren't made for this, however the graphics card would be perfect
3) I don't have an Elite yet :D
Doesn't the Xbox360 have 3 cores? 3 PPC cores + GPU should result in some serious crunching power. Even if they were different work units (ie: You download 4 at a time, 3 for the PPC cores, 1 for the GPU -- but it's like 1 WU). - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Unfortunetly for you, Cell was designed for gaming, applications, as that goes with multimedia.
Cell is a monster at handling physics engines and audio. Which are primarily handled by floating point ops.
Whoever told you Cell is not for gaming is a moron. Cell is as much a gaming processor as 360s and Wiis as they are all powerPC based. Cell just has more hardware added on to help it do more (ie: physics and audio as mentioned earlier)
You can even devote an SPE/SPU towards culling, reducing the workload on the GPU and doubling the polygon count - triplehelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2massive, ground breaking, cure enabling help.
- vraa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Forget the number of frames, that means nothing.
It could be a more complex protein, or less.
However, the general PS3 unit I believe is "larger" than a regular uni-processor small workunit for the PC/Mac.
There are SMP units though which are much more complex.
The project needs all kinds of hardware.
There are some workunits that can only be done on the PS3/GPU
Some that can only be done by single processor machines
Some that can only be done by the SMP clients (Mac, Win, Linux). - triplehelix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3incorrect spudnic. as stated, the ps3 WU's are larger, but the ps3 is so much more efficient then a desktop, that it is able to complete it in the 8-12 hrs they wanted to limit it too.
a regular cpu is the most diverse folder, a gpu is the most specialized, and the ps3 sits somewhere in the middle. - Blandyman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I'm agnostic, and I find that to be extremely offending, both to Christians, and myself. This is why they hate us so much.
- spucky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was able to rationalize getting a PS3 by having about 25 PS2 games and a broken PS2 (kids use to pack it to friends houses in a plastic bag - too many drops). I haven't been able to play any of those games for a while. Now I can.
I also told my wife that my birthday was coming up and that is all I wanted. I also wanted to learn to program the Cell.
In all that, I convinced myself that this was right. If you need some excuses, I would be glad to help make some up for you. - unusualbob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2sweet i didnt know digg had a team, im already on google though.
- FuZi0nDET, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9At least I found a good use for my PS3 while I wait for games to come out for it! It was starting to get jealous of my 360!
- shelbygt33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1These things have been going on for so long, have there been any real world results from them? Honest question, no bashing intended.
- SfOwnsLa, on 10/12/2007, -9/+10Although I'll guess it'll be cut in half within a yr when the Big 3 come out, FF, MGS, and R&C come out.
- EmmSee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Team #47777 has been flying up the Folding@home rankings... let's keep it up. Join and fold and CURE!
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