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- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -13/+76Associate Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and Folding@home project lead pointed out that thanks to the PS3s and its owners who ran Folding@home, the research process on the different diseases being studied has been sped up by a decade
I await the spin doctors. Wageslaven, you're up. I bet $20 on you making some pathetic crack at PS3 having no games. - Carsonauto, on 10/10/2007, -2/+60My friend runs it on his PS3, and I run it full-time on my PC.
Over 6 months, I racked up 20 Work Units.
He ranked up 200 - hockey, on 10/10/2007, -4/+51I don't know what's worse. Wageslaven or the fact that he's constantly acknowledged on this site. If there's some super troll on these boards I wouldn't notice because I simply ignore them, digg them down and move on.
The fact that wageslaven is mentioned in every PS3 thread as a troll is proof that too many people are spending too much time thinking about him. - AwesomeMonster, on 10/10/2007, -6/+48A good cause, I wish it would come to 360/wii so more people could contribute.
- Ajajadude, on 10/10/2007, -5/+46Not to sound fanboyish (even though I'll get dugg down anyway), but I wouldn't want to leave my 360 on at all times like I do with my PS3, especially if it's running folding@home. I'd be too worried it'd overheat on me.
- Ajajadude, on 10/10/2007, -8/+48It just means I'm comfortable leaving my PS3 on 24/7 without having to worry about it breaking.
Can't say the same for my 360. - jacksons98, on 10/10/2007, -4/+37From kotaku: "the petaflop...one quadrillion floating point operations per second. It would take everyone in the world doing 75,000 calculations in a second to achieve similar results, so the milestone is pretty massive."
- bigbadgoat, on 10/10/2007, -9/+36I figure he'll say something like this.
"The only reason Folding@home is so successful on the PS3 is people put on folding@home to look at the pretty globe spin around. That globe is far more exciting than any PS3 game on the market"
AMIRITE?
I'm gona back to play some DiRT. That game is hella fun. - IEatHamburgers, on 10/10/2007, -4/+29I live in the Upper Midwest and last winter I found that running a 360 is a great alternative to a space heater.
- iamrock, on 10/10/2007, -5/+28To 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 - dictum, on 10/10/2007, -4/+27Yeah! ***** medical research! haha
- johnmalc, on 10/10/2007, -3/+26I ran F@H nearly 24/7 on my Pentium 4 for 3.5 years. After I got my ps3 and F@H, I left it on 24/7 and it overtook my P4's stats in 3.5 weeks.
Shamed and insecure about its chiphood, my P4 Desktop ran out and bought a Hummer H2, a really big gun, and started stuffing tubesocks into its heatsink. - darkzealot89, on 10/10/2007, -2/+25Point and reason for the project, do you understand it *****?
- WhereAmI, on 10/10/2007, -8/+31http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype= ...
Official stat site...for you wageslaven and truespector... - dvddesign, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23I usually fold every Saturday and Sunday when doing laundry. No seriously. Makes sense. I'm busy with the laundry, after all.
Might as well let the PS3 do something while I'm busy. - bonarez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16yep, and one of those ps3's is mine, got 223 work units done.
bought my ps3 as soon as it came out (in eu) and I love the machine.
this is for a good cause peepz, now there is finally enough computing power to research protein folding!
a lot of diseases are cause by misfolding of proteins. DUGG - mywhitenoise, on 10/10/2007, -5/+20wageslaven is bad, but truspector is much worse.
- dobbinmon, on 10/10/2007, -27/+42well, at least they're good at something
- otakushark, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15From the PS3 FAQ:
What type of calculations the PS3 client is capable of running?
The PS3 right now runs what are called implicit solvation calculations, including some simple ones (sigmodal dependent dielectric) and some more sophisticated ones (AGBNP, a type of Generalized Born method from Prof. Ron Levy's group at Rutgers). In this respect, the PS3 client is much like our GPU client. However, the PS3 client is more flexible, in that it can also run explicit solvent calculations as well, although not at the same speed increase relative to PC's. We are working to increase the speed of explicit solvent on the PS3 and would then run these calculations on the PS3 as well. In a nutshell, the PS3 takes the middle ground between GPU's (extreme speed, but at limited types of WU's) and CPU's (less speed, but more flexibility in types of WU's). - codelogic, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17More like $15.
- BlueSkyfish, on 10/10/2007, -6/+18As long as we're pointing out fanboys..
Notable Sony fanboys:
Mywhitenoise
WhereAmI
Neotechni
Tahiri
Notable 360 fanboys:
Wageslaven
Truespector
Notable Nintendo fanboys:
KingGoonie - Alphonze, on 10/10/2007, -5/+17i think the reason the ps3's able to do this is because of its cell processor.
- mywhitenoise, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16No, it's expected to defend yourself if you're being attacked.
I don't go on every single 360 digg and ridicule the console. - otakushark, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12...and when the extended warranty runs out, the only thing your 360 will be good for is a doorstop.
- dictum, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14But will the Digg effect increase their power, I know I'm downloading this when I get home. Never knew about it until now.
- Flummoxer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13It would be better to just use your PC's processor. Edit: Meant to reply to AwesomeMonster
- griz, on 10/10/2007, -4/+15Personally, I'd prefer to save the life on this planet before searching for life on other planets.
- Metaridley, on 10/10/2007, -19/+30I can hear Sony fanboys around the world readying their next arguement: "Yeah, well the PS3 can CURE CANCER."
- bocaJWho, on 10/10/2007, -5/+14Who's Wageslaven? Someone I blocked months ago?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -11/+21Sweet...I think I need to get a PS3 at some point. Anything that hurts Xbox makes all the angels in heaven smile...
I've got about three boxes I'm not using that I could use to fold@home...I need to get those bad boys powered up and FLOPing. - DeadlyAura, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10I run this on my personal PC, all the PC's in my house, and all the PC's at my dad's business. I've also recruited friends to fold for me.
I don't have a ton of processing power to throw around, but I do my part.
My team is ranked #1 in the world, and I am ranked 12918 of 805889 in the world.
If I had the money to throw away on a PS3, I would buy multiples just to run this project. I'm a huge supporter of the project and all that they do, and I'm hoping to possibly go to Stanford for grad school solely for the purpose of wanting to work on this project. - krische, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13Uh, have you played any of the games for it? Just curious, or are you like everyone else that keeps coming up with excuses to not like the good games out for it now? I find myself playing warhawk when I'm not in class, sometimes not doing homework or losing some sleep cause its so addicting. And I found myself playing dirt for several hours and that was just with the DEMO!
But no, we have to ignore those 2 examples because, ... well .. they .. umm ... they're on the PS3 and that doesn't have any good games!! yea thats it! - jacksons98, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I don't think it was ever meant as a selling point. It's about doing something good. And when it's not playing games it's a good way to use the technology built into the PS3.
- reed311, on 10/10/2007, -6/+15While I appreciate what the PS3 is doing for research, I don't think this feature would ever be a selling point for someone on the fence. People would rather have their gaming system play great games than cure cancer. Like I said, it's a nice feature for mankind but is completely and utterly useless on a gaming system. But, you can't deny the good that it is doing.
- proliance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9If you visit the Folding@Home forums, you'll see that many people are very dedicated to crunching numbers. So dedicated, that yes, hundreds if not more, bought the PS3 for the sole reason of folding.
- Goobernutz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10i'm not giving away a single cycle of my MBP's Core 2 Duo until someone comes up with the curebalding@home project!
- krische, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Can you supply the source for that?
- izzybr, on 10/10/2007, -5/+13I would just like to point out that the TFLOP per cpu is much higher for GPUs than for PS3. So everyone else out there that has a compatible GPU, get on it already
- wageslaven, on 10/10/2007, -12/+19OK: PLEASE DONT VOTE ME DOWN. Ive been asked to make a joke. Im human, my mother passed from cancer when I was a teen. I've run distributed computing clients before, and it is exciting to throw-in for a good cause.
So, I'll _thank_ the PS3 owners and Sony for providing the client, and running it as much as they have.
BUT! "I await the spin doctors. Wageslaven, you're up. I bet $20 on you making some pathetic crack at PS3 having no games."
When I read the title, I was going to come and post the following (as a joke!):
"Folding@Home, sounds like a fun game, how do you play?" or some variant.
So, I owe the grand parent $20. - suprxtragrav, on 12/09/2008, -0/+7its amazing that one day we'll have computers that can process petabyes in seconds.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7The devs of F@H said 360s CPU wouldn't handle it nearly as well as PS3s.
- krische, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11I see you haven't actually played any of those games then. Especially warhawk. That game is like the definition of addicting.
- EvilGeniusTodd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7The Wii doesn't exactly pack much processing power when compared to the PS3(correct me if I'm wrong but I think it has a small fraction of the processing capabilities). The 360 would just burst into flames after a few hours.
- krische, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9Here's an idea: eat *****, then kill yourself. Better yet, maybe you could get diagnosed with one of the diseases Folding@Home is trying to cure. Then they PS3 wouldn't seem so bad would it?
- uberchaoslord, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9well.... it can.... :P
- jrowlingson, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8It is important to remember that the PS3 client works on different work units than the PC client.. so it is important to have many PC clients folding at well. If your not already folding you should! join the digg team# "4777". Lets see if the digg community can rock this project and make a difference.
Download here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html - djSyndrome, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Are you kidding? The Wii has enough trouble staying cool with WiiConnect24.
- krische, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9Here's an idea: eat *****, then kill yourself. Better yet, maybe you could get diagnosed with one of the diseases Folding@Home is trying to cure. Then they PS3 wouldn't seem so bad would it?
- codelogic, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9Forgot source: http://www.hardcoreware.net/ps3-power-usage-during ...
Also, doesn't matter if the pharmaceuticals make money or not, the point is, there's a cure. It's as senseless as saying that you would never buy a game because the game company / publisher makes a profit on it. - WhereAmI, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I don't argue. Except for Neo, he's pretty even in all senses. I guess for him defending the PS3 means he's a fanboy.
I've been around a long time Tahiri...
And I try to use sources when I can, which is whenever I feel like searching for them. -
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