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- xTRUMANx, on 11/07/2007, -7/+175Let me play the peacemaker for the fanboy war that will ensue if this article hits frontpage. Let us all agree that Folding@Home is not a PS3 project and the credit should be given to the team at Stanford for creating the software and at the same time let us all agree that ever since the release of the PS3 client, Folding@Home is what it is due to the PS3. Without it, no crazy records, not as much fame and recognition.
To summarize, F@H credit goes to Stanford team and it does not belong to PS3, but PS3 has made it what it has now become. Also, be glad that PS3 owners are folding and helping science, so how about we stop the cheap shots about no games which is a very subjective argument to begin with. - xerus, on 11/14/2007, -39/+159My roommate's PS3 has been folding since we unboxed it... we uh... still don't have any games for it.
- Saiing, on 11/14/2007, -5/+59I think that should be "most powerful 'legal' distributed network".
There are probably a few 'botnets out there that could eat it for breakfast. - relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -9/+59http://i6.tinypic.com/4zjzxbt.jpg
- Zoids, on 11/06/2007, -10/+50http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype= ...
The PS3 now contributes over 700 teraflops on a daily basis. That's more than the other platforms combined, by my math it's currently 9 times more than the other platforms. - galahan, on 11/07/2007, -0/+34Give the non-PS3 folders credit too. Especially those who have been hammering those proteins for years.
- whatthefu, on 11/07/2007, -4/+36Wasn't Folding@Home around long before the PS3?
- Zoids, on 11/03/2007, -2/+34Just clearing up my earlier statement, it's 3.5 times more than the all the other platforms combined.
I'm stupid. :( - Zoids, on 11/06/2007, -1/+31There is the possibility that all of these people leave their PS3's on whilst they go to work or school. You know, when they can't play games?
- maverex, on 11/07/2007, -1/+26"The PlayStation 3's computing project, Folding@Home, has been recognized by the Guinness World Records as the most powerful distributed network in the world."
This is NOT the PS3's project. Sony just thought it was a good idea to ADD folding@home, a nonprofit organization's program, unto the PS3 - ishmael2, on 11/01/2007, -1/+25The PS3's project? Heck no this has been around way longer, way before the PS3 was around.
- Zoids, on 11/07/2007, -9/+30It wouldn't be in the record books as" the most powerful distributed network in the world" without the PS3.
- Ajajadude, on 11/06/2007, -1/+21Most diggers don't understand the concept of "having a life"
- meed, on 11/07/2007, -0/+19 If your gonna give hardware makers credit how about giving ATI/AMD the credit for their help with the GPU client at the same time? Also how about Giving credit to the top 100 folding teams? Seriously, Sony is literately a late entry in the F@H family, and this article doesn't mention prior year of folding before the PS3 came to the scene.
- reticulate, on 11/07/2007, -6/+21For *****'s sake, it's not the PS3's project. It's been around for ***** years.
And don't give me that Teraflop BS. The PS3's computing abilities are pretty restricted in terms of what it can and can't do well in terms of F@H. The PS3 client is written with that exact thing in mind. Without general purpose CPU's doing the heavy lifting, all that PR-friendly Teraflop power would be worthless. - Dracusis, on 11/07/2007, -18/+32Why am I not surprised that this is posted by someone who's digg comment history shows blatant Wii fanboism. This guys comment on COD4:
"Hey guys, this game has a gun in the lower right corner of the screen! Really? HOLY *****! 10/10!"
Yeah, lets dig him up! - akkibaba, on 11/01/2007, -0/+14folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers
This is a summary of all the research papers that have been published using Folding@Home data. Cheers! - lacronicus, on 11/01/2007, -23/+36"The PlayStation 3's computing project, Folding@Home"
This was what I am referring to here. The project is in no way affiliated with Sony or the ps3. Certainly, it has helped the program immensely in reaching this point, but the title and the article implies that this is a ps3 project, which it is not. Maybe I'm just being picky, but this should not be a ps3 article. - codelogic, on 11/06/2007, -0/+12@BlackMask, Stanford, not MIT.
- goatrandy, on 11/01/2007, -0/+11The 'storm worm' network has it beaten by a long shot. The Russian mob own THE largest distributed computing system on earth. It scares me, and it should scare you.
- Shaflugi, on 11/07/2007, -0/+11Er, what? F@H uses 100% CPU at the lowest priority. Meaning that it will give up those CPU cycles if anything else asks for them. Right now I've got it running 100% on all four of my cores.
You would get very little to nothing done using 1% of the CPU's cycles. - musntSurfatWork, on 11/01/2007, -3/+14yes, My world record, on just 5! PS3's. That's right. 5, PS3's. You are ridden with disease, because you only have 4, PS3's.
- Ajajadude, on 11/06/2007, -12/+22The record is due to the power the PS3 provides to the project. This really isn't that difficult to comprehend, ya know.
- dsuther2, on 11/06/2007, -5/+15i highly doubt that
- xTRUMANx, on 11/06/2007, -1/+11Hey props to everybody who's been folding. Too bad I can't edit my original comment but I wrote that way to stop stupid fanboys in their tracks. Fanboys don't care about non-PS3 folders, they just want to bash/glorify the PS3.
- Ajajadude, on 11/07/2007, -7/+16Actually, yes, we should give credit (and do) to Apple for making the MP3 what it is today.
- Mike89, on 11/01/2007, -1/+10Yep.
- Ansible, on 11/01/2007, -5/+13PS3s contribute to the project, they don't own it. capeesh?
- jawdog, on 11/06/2007, -0/+8Hey at least you get to watch a funky screensaver while they plot your demise.
- worthone, on 11/02/2007, -4/+12I really don't get your point, I mean, he posted a digg-worthy comment, and being a fanboy to another console than PS3 doesn't really change the fact that he and his roommate still don't have any games for the darned console.
- inactive, on 02/25/2009, -3/+11If I'm leaving my ps3 on at all time, I'm paying for the electricity bill too. It's not like your father is paying the bills. So, therefore, it's all up to the ps3 owners to decide. And it's all being done to help MIT come out with a cure for cancer. We're not paying 50 bucks per year just to play multiplayer games online.
In related news, owners of the other console don't dare leave their RROD-prone console on too often due to fear of overheating - Sharky35, on 11/06/2007, -0/+8Skynet is born.
- soulpiercer7, on 11/06/2007, -1/+8a botnet capable of a petaflop? fat chance. the folding@home network is insanely powerful, it gives supercomputers a run for their money. I can't picture hundreds of thousands of computers all caught in the same botnet running calculations at this rate. no way.
- Ebiggs, on 11/06/2007, -0/+7You obviously don't have a PS3.
F@h on the PS3 does not use idle time, it uses 100% CPU (and quite a bit of the GPU I imagine) when you start the client (you can set it to begin after 10, 20, or 30 minutes of inactivity. Stanford said that it uses about 200W/hr before the last update that added the screensaver (cuts down GPU use I think) and probably made the code more efficient in general.
My PS3 runs almost 24/7 on F@h when I'm not around or not using it for anything else. To put things into perspective, an advanced mode work unit on the PS3 can be up to 500,000 frames. That takes about 8 hours to complete. The hardest variety for the PC usually runs about 50,000 frames I think, and takes about half a week or more on an overclocked Core 2 Duo (3.1Ghz). - paintist, on 11/02/2007, -0/+7Obviously, it must be shared credit. The credit being awarded is for being the most powerful distributed computing system - which is both a nod to the software (Folding@Home) and the hardware (the PS3 and others, keep in mind the PS3 currently produces the most X-flops) responsible. But I agree Folding@Home should retain a large part of the credit. Without distributed computing clients in general Sony would never have even considered giving the PS3 that feature.
It's ridiculous the article sites Folding@Home to be a PS3 project. - jun2san, on 11/02/2007, -2/+9Damn....stalker.
- dbr_onix, on 11/01/2007, -0/+7It's a fair question - if it's going to be using the 100% of your CPU all the time, it's not unreasonable to know what it's actually achieving.
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers is a list of the papers based on what Folding@Home has found. - h4mx0r, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6of course, you're also assuming everyone folds...
- TheGuruStud, on 11/06/2007, -4/+10I hope both are sarcasm, b/c the Ipod sucks dick.
- saggygrandma, on 11/01/2007, -1/+6pretty gay comment dude.
- iofthestorm, on 11/01/2007, -1/+5Well, ATI GPUs are a lot faster than the PS3 but it's just that the number of people who have the proper models and know about the GPU F@H client are much smaller than the number of people who just had it running on their PS3. For PS3 owners it's less of a conscious choice than for PC users.
- Kicker01, on 11/01/2007, -0/+4You do know that the ps3 can only do certain type of Work Units, right? It is the general CPU's that can do the largest range of Work Units.
It isn't all about the "TFLOPS" sometimes. - b04155, on 11/01/2007, -0/+4Nice barn, but it ain't no pool.
- samdu, on 11/01/2007, -1/+5Would that I could Digg you twice for that.
- taintedzodiac, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4Interesting comment, but I'd wager that the ratio (Wii:PS3) for sold units isn't even close to the ratio (PS3:Wii) for processing speed in F@H.
- soulpiercer7, on 11/01/2007, -0/+4they aren't using this project to cure diseases. They are using this project to study protein folding which is something scientists still don't fully understand. Scientists can use this data in the future in their efforts to cure all these diseases.
- TheGuruStud, on 11/01/2007, -1/+5except that business model has already been proven wrong. They make exponentially more money selling meds that keep you alive, but only enough, so that you can buy more. A cure would mean that once you make the one large payment (which can't be enough to cover the losses compared to a non-cure), you're done with them. It's like the contractors in Iraq. It is designed so that they can stay as long as possible without accomplishing anything except sustaining the current condition.
- Mike89, on 11/01/2007, -0/+4Read up about Storm, I'd suggest.
- redwire, on 11/02/2007, -0/+4they did a pretty decent rundown of the inner workings of Folder@home on dl.tv over the last few episodes, I believe it should answer most of your questions if you can put up with Robert as the interviewer. http://www.dl.tv/
- s1mph0ny, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3True, but most of those dual core cpus pull 100 watts alone.
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