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- Renton, on 11/19/2007, -3/+80So it's basically Folding@Home for a different university
- sanman, on 11/19/2007, -5/+55So remember, when Mom n Dad question why you need the PS3 for Xmas, tell them that it's to help medical science cure cancer
- Lane, on 11/19/2007, -1/+22Yes, your absolutely right, they could potentially steal anything on your PS3's hard drive! Quickly hide the sexy beach game saves!!
- zwilliams, on 11/19/2007, -6/+21Interesting offer but at the moment my PS3 is still chuggin away at F@H about ~320WU done so far. Gotta use it for something, right?
- bigdoof, on 11/19/2007, -1/+13There are so many things wrong with this statement. Most glaring is that you think science is best served when one group is doing all of the research. Nothing against the Standard F@H guys, but knowledge isn't advanced by having a single bunch of guys, operating under a single perspective. Also, "dilution" is the very essence of idle processing. It's strength is supposed to be it's scalability, both up and down.
- AvidPreatorian, on 11/19/2007, -3/+14language, or no Halo
- Dylson, on 11/19/2007, -1/+12No, just no. Fail.
- itsinmyeyes, on 11/19/2007, -2/+12you are my hero
- tech42er, on 11/19/2007, -1/+9It's still charity. I'm letting them use my cycles for no pay. That's charity,
- Upon66, on 11/19/2007, -2/+9http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-PS3
- volacide, on 11/19/2007, -2/+9If only 360's could actually do something useful when they got the RROD eh?
- Shaflugi, on 11/19/2007, -4/+11I don't have a PS3, nor do I want one, but this fanboy ***** is getting REALLY old.
- samdu, on 11/19/2007, -1/+7All PS3s sans the 20GB have built in WiFi.
- Seafea, on 11/19/2007, -2/+8xbot is a stupid word, and you should stop using it.
- KrustyTClown, on 11/19/2007, -1/+7There are plenty of great games available for ps3 right now.
- samdu, on 11/19/2007, -1/+7You wasted that much time researching this? O.o
- spucky, on 11/19/2007, -4/+10The cell processor is awesome. The problem is that most game developers know nothing about concurrency, especially heterogeneous concurrency. The PS3 will keep getting better for many years as people learn to use it fully. It may be slow out of the gate, but it has stamina.
The last product I worked on had 40 threads (not cell based). About 10 of those could have been massively accelerated by the architecture of the SPUs. - BenKenobi88, on 11/19/2007, -1/+7That's what charity is, duh. It would cost them money to run so many computer farms, so instead you're running a PS3 and footing the electric bill for them, in the name of charity. That's how it works. You don't have to if you don't want to.
- otakushark, on 11/19/2007, -1/+6You need a new whine. There are over 100 games out for the PS3 already, and quite a few more will be hitting stores before the end of the year.
- dannyboy3020, on 11/19/2007, -1/+6You are quite a character, aren't you?
- Barnolde, on 11/19/2007, -0/+5I love using it when I've got 15(!) things queued up for background downloading and I can leave it on overnight or for a month straight without having to worry. Even though the wifi at school sucks, at least it's still a built-in option.
- coheedcollapse, on 11/19/2007, -2/+7It's really not that advanced. If you have YDL it's all automated. Ubuntu is a little more tough, but still doable for most people.
- KrustyTClown, on 11/19/2007, -0/+4YDL was very easy to install.
- KrustyTClown, on 11/19/2007, -0/+4Wow, how many games do you need? You must have a lot of time on your hands to be bored with 6 games that are worth playing. I only have 4 and I'm happy with all of them, RB6 Vegas, Resistance, Warhawk, and Oblivion. Warhawk gets played the most, it's very addictive.
- fallenone05, on 11/19/2007, -0/+4right...because people will go out and buy a ps3 just for Folding @ Home...
- krische, on 11/19/2007, -0/+4Oh, so you've programmed games for the PS3? Sweet, any I heard of?
- tech42er, on 11/19/2007, -3/+7Uh, he's not an "xbot". He criticized both consoles.
- J4k3, on 11/19/2007, -1/+5ROFL...well ***** said! :-D
- xfile102, on 11/19/2007, -0/+3And your 5 computers at home ALMOST can match the power of one PS3 for these calculation tasks.. But not quite
- ChromaVita, on 11/19/2007, -3/+6So he's a Nintendo Fanboy in disguise!
- arcticblue, on 11/19/2007, -0/+3lol at "shut the ***** up". Silly 16 year old doesn't know how to cuss yet :P
- Abno, on 11/19/2007, -0/+3And did you just ignore all the articles with developers talking about using the SPU's?
- ElectroBot, on 11/19/2007, -0/+2The results will most likely outweigh the energy costs. Why should a university buy a mainframe, create a building to house it and waste money powering it, when it can have people all over the the world volunteer the spare CPU cycles and get a similar if not better ROI. Besides most/some of those computers will be on whether they're crunching numbers or not, so they might as well put them to use determining hurricane structures, mapping genomes or finding the cure to diseases like AIDS.
- ngnboone, on 11/19/2007, -3/+5Not really interesting, seeing as this sort of thing has been going on for years
- spucky, on 11/19/2007, -3/+5I'm not defending the PS3, I'm just starting a conversation.
I don't play games. I bought the PS3 because it is the cheapest development system to learn to program the Cell. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse and I can play with it from the couch learning one cool processor that probably will never be used in my job. Even though I will never use it professionally, learning new stuff like vector processing can only make me a better programmer.
I just don't understand the fanboys. People who get upset that PS3 doesn't have as many games as 360 or Wii - who gives a *****! Don't buy the PS3 you turd. Be happy with your 360 and leave the rest of us the ***** alone. I have 2 games and that is enough for me. When I want to take a break from doing 4 floating point operations per instruction and - on a good day - issuing 2 instructions per clock (times 7 SPUs and 1 PowerPC and 1 Altivec), I can race some cars. - triplehelix, on 11/19/2007, -0/+2except possibly a cure for an ailment you or a loved one may develop.
- ptaylor, on 11/19/2007, -0/+1"Shut the ***** up?" Cussing someone out is not supposed to leave them and the audience confused...
Try again... - noneuclidean, on 11/19/2007, -1/+2If it only could play video games...
- CrankyHippo, on 11/19/2007, -0/+1i haven't gotten the RROD so i wouldn't know :P
- ZekeTsurai, on 12/22/2007, -0/+1The RROD isn't as common as some would think. It's like the Windows' BSOD.
- KrustyTClown, on 11/20/2007, -0/+1Well , I guess I don't have a problem, I can think.
- xfile102, on 11/19/2007, -0/+1Really? I would love to see you cite an example where HOME users of a ridiculously powerful Game Console with Networked Computing capability have been able to use the Unquantifiable, Exponential paired computing power of the system to help find cures for diseases... (And NO, 1.5Million dollar and UP systems like Lawrence Livermore Labs don't count. They RENT their time to these causes, for big bucks.)
- ggoyal, on 11/19/2007, -2/+3Maybe you need a PS3 to solve this puzzle.
- RolltheStampede, on 11/19/2007, -1/+1oh yeah i remeber that game blast factor.
- arcticblue, on 11/19/2007, -3/+3All I had to do was click his profile. Didn't take much time at all. I usually hang out in the upcoming sections and this one jumped up to the "hot" section real quick (had 60 diggs in 2 hours). Submissions that do that annoy me because it makes me feel like someone is trying to game the system. There are quite a few good stories that run through the upcoming section only to never get out of upcoming because of people gaming the system.
I submitted a story about graphics acceleration finally coming to PS3 Linux (which I felt was something worthwhile to submit and something that would be interesting to the Digg crowd). It took 2 days to get 21 legit diggs. It was up in the top few of the "hot" section, but then it just disappeared. This submission was in the hot section for just a couple hours before it made it to the popular page. So many other submission share this same fate and it sucks that a few people gaming the system ruin it for others like that.
I'm not accusing the submitter of gaming the system; I'm just pointing out that it is very odd that this got dugg so quickly and he has a strange submission history. - epj3, on 11/19/2007, -5/+5Wow you truly are an idiot. I was making fun of both consoles. I'm sure if I had a PS3, I would like that also. I'm sure you are an exciting individual in person, especially if you get this worked up over a small comment made in good humor - about a freakin' game console. Talk about over analyzing a comment, geesh.
The only nintendo product I own is an NES. - volacide, on 11/19/2007, -1/+1They're sentient now?
- withoutashovel, on 11/19/2007, -3/+3So saying you can run both at the same time (I'm not sure if you can't) you send half of your power to two universities, which still turns out to be the same amount of disease fighting goodness. I'm jus curious as to how much an idle PS3 running complex calculations like that saps up power, not that I'm against helping out. It just adds up over time.
- BdON003, on 11/19/2007, -3/+3so I'll be darn, that thing IS useful.
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