Folding@Home computing power reaches 2080 Terraflop mark (2 petaflops).
As of November 2007, the IBM Blue Gene/L at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is the fastest operational supercomputer, with a sustained processing rate of 478.2 TFLOPS.
The Folding@Home network is over 4x more powerful than the second most powerful supercomputer.
The PS3 is providing 81% of the computing power. In comparison, Windows PCs are providing 9%. This is especially amazing since there is almost 4 times less PS3 than computers contributing. Therefore the average computing power of a PS3 is approximately 32 times more than the average PC. This is due to recent updates to the Folding@Home application which make it more efficient.
If you're not folding, what have YOU done to help getting rid of those stupid diseases... Sure, folding may never find a cure, but at least it's a step in the right direction. It's just one of the many ways to do it. You can also give money tons of money to science, and still they may not find a cure.
And you can do nothing, and hope you will never get cancer, parkinson, or all those stupid diseases that should have been cured by now. I do hope you're lucky!!!
I need to get back to folding. Used to fold every time i wasn't playing ps3. Used to leave my ps3 on for days. Avg 10 days before i would get some random freeze or some game update or some sort to make me restart.
Sure feels good to know you have a reliable console:D
"Sure feels good to know you have a reliable console:D"
lol So true! The PS3 is built pretty tough, I agree.
Hmmm, I wonder why folding@home never made it to the 360... *cough, cough*
Curing stuff is great and all but leaving my ps3 on none stop uses electricity which causes global warming WHICH IS KILLING OUR PLANET. I would rather die of cancer then help take down my planet with me so i might have a chance to survive .
PS no disrespect to anyone suffering for a terminal illness
Bah - Global warming has never killed anyone - fold on I say!! :p
I think the data has been used in quite a few research papers, all of which can be used to better understand various conditions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
1-The planet is not alive... therefore it cannot be killed.
2-What exactly is it that makes you think the current planetary temperature is the best climate for life?
3-The power consumption of a PS3 can be offset by replacing 4 lightbulbs with CFL bulbs and/or purchasing block energy from renewable sources (an option for a good number of people in many areas).
4-Distributed computing is 5 times more energy efficient than by having only reserved computers perform the tasks.
5-Even if global warming wipes out the human population there will still be life on earth, it just won't be yours, this in turn would cause an immediate drop in greenhouse gas emmissions,far more significant than the Kyoto accord so STFU.
6-It's my planet I'll kill it if I want to.
7-If your so concerned with how much impact technological use that is not directly needed for human life has on the planet WHY ARE YOU ON A SOCIAL SITE POSTING ADDED INFORMATION TO AN ALWAYS ON SERVER THAT USES MORE POWER THAN A PS3? Oh yeah, because your a hypocrite.
I agree with most of your points except 1 and 6.
1 - "The planet is not alive" - While the actual rock and elements that make up our planet are not alive, the life on this planet as a whole can be viewed as a single organism. If a certain organism dies out completely (like trees), all others will follow, just as in a human, if the brain dies, the body soon will follow. In another point of view, our planet is alive because it is active geologically; the moving and shifting within the core of the planet and weather. Some astrological bodies, such as our own moon, are considered "dead", due to its lack of activity, and thus can not support any (known) type of life (without external support) because it does not "renew" itself.
6 - This is not your planet. We all share it. You can even say we rent it, as geologically, we are not even a blip on the screen. We do not have the right to destroy our planet even if we have the ability to do so. While I don't think you intended it that way, your comment comes across as being very short sighted, arrogant, and selfish.
But, as I said, I do agree with most of your points. If we can further medical science with this technology, that is a good thing. There are far worse global warming offenders than electrical consumption.
And MDSS - you have obviously not seen some one close to you suffer from the diseases that these scientists are working to prevent / cure. I have lost several family members to cancer, and it is not pretty. There is no reason why we can't stop these diseases AND cut back on greenhouse gases at the same time. We all should do our part on ALL fronts. If you felt as strongly about it as your statement suggests, you would not be on your computer right now wasting time and electricity with a video game forum.
Global warming has never killed anybody?
Katrina.
Sure cyclones.... sorry, hurricanes are a fact of life, but they are becoming more frequent and severe. Hell didnt a typhoon just wipe out 50 thousand people in burma? Yes these things have always happened, but most scientists agree that they are becoming more frequent.
Anywho, my only gripe with folding at home is the idea of networking hundreds of thousands of cell processors. The same processors that run advanced Artificial Intelligence simulations in labs. <shivers>
2 petra flops! Other processors only dream of what the Cell can do...and it is only gonna get better!
http://fah-web.stanford.edu...
This is simply amazing!!!
By the way I am over 1330 work units....there was a time not to long ago that the PS3 was folding over 10 work units a day! There were these work units that only took 3 hours to fold!
There was one day last week where i got 2500 points in one day!!! just from the PS3!
I can not wait this there is a PS HOME Trophy for folding@home stats!
i remember that. for that last week or so the work units have been taking about a day and a half. makes it less satisfying when it takes almost 2 full days of actual folding to get just 1 unit done. doesnt matter in the main scheme of things because we are still helping, just a mind thing. ive been having a lot of freezing problems with f@h lately though. completely freezes my ps3 and i have to hold down the power button for a few seconds to make it restart. if ms would just make the software for sony and sony made ms's hardware all would be well.
Foldin@home isn't trying to cure diseases. its trying to find a way to effectively control minds. And seeing as so many ps3 owners paid a lot of money for a game consol and have more time spent in folding then gaming I can say they are making progress :P
I'm waiting for the day that you discover that you have a brain tumor. You, then, ran to your local Bestbuy or EBgame buy 20 PS3 and start Folding like no tomorrow...
some people don't understand the purpose of folding at home and are stating that it is helping "global warming" that is true but there is nothing you can do you cant just stop using electronics and go back to the cave man days. In my mind you are trying to discourage people from Folding @ Home which i can understand why. Maybe you have an Xbox or PC and it will take your life time to do what my Playstation 3 does in a month. Then you say you rather die of cancer then cure it well you can die of cancer just smoke 30 packs a day bye your next birthday you will receive you cancer. Well a family member died of cancer and I all ways wished I could have done something about and I am which is Folding @ Home. To everyone participating Keep The Hope Alive (The hope to find a cure that is)
Think of it as doing your part to provide scientists and doctors with the world's most powerful computer so they can do their work.
The power consumption is negligible and as many have said can be easily offset by turning off other electronics that aren't contributing to the fight against cancer and disease.
@THUNDERMARE
Thats nice he wants me to get a brain tumor and I got 7 disagreas and he only gets one? Hypocrites...
@Merovee
Mabey they could use F@H to figure out how to make games for the ps3 so I can finaly buy some exclusive worth buying for the bloody thing. (Yes I own a ps3)
@Mr Bun
thats what I was aiming for (on both counts :P)
@ban fans
No, I reall think they are using F@H for mind control...
You really can't afford to be this naive (that goes to most of you...)
That one day people look back and admire folding@home as one of the wonders of our time. It might sound silly, but what you have is multiple generations, from pretty much every country on the planet dedicating energy and resources to curing some of the most terrible diseases that we as a people have ever faced. Its something i think we should be proud of for achieving. No one makes any money off of it, and no one has to leave their electronics on all night but we still do and its one of the very small highlights that I can find in our world.
Maximum PC: Walking into the Pande Lab at Stanford University is somewhat of a hardcore geek’s ultimate dream. This is, after all, where the real work gets done—or should we say, work units. For the various desktop systems and consoles scattered around the area are all a part of a larger initiative that likely you and I, as well as Stanford graduate students, researchers from around the globe, and consortiums of geeks and enthusiasts alike, have all contributed to.
Dr. Vijay Pande, an associate professor of chemistry, structural biology, and computer science over at Stanford—as well as the longtime director of the Folding@Home distributing computing project, which his aptly titled “Pande Lab” oversees—estimates that around 400,000 systems actively “fold” at the current moment. Given the program’s fairly linear growth of around 40,000 new systems a year, Folding@Home should be able to push past half a million “connected” PCs easily before its crystal anniversary.
Amazing project.
Amazing feature on PS3 to help the project.
Critical Gamer writes: There has been a lot of hype about the power of the Cell processor residing inside the PlayStation 3. Whether or not we will see its full power being exploited remains to be seen, but it has been put to good use by medical researchers in America with the folding@home project.
I’m sure a lot of PS3 owners are unaware of the program folding@home residing on their PS3. This little piece of software has been designed by boffins at Stanford University in the USA, and is used to perform mathematical calculations of proteins when they misfold in the human body. I know you’re probably wondering what I’m wittering on about, so here’s what it is all about.
I know that pc's use folding@home as well. I think all computers should use this as every little helps. Wii doesn't have it as it doesn't really have the power for the tasks at hand, and Stanford university said that the 360 is of limited help to them
http://n4g.com/news/37648/x...
PS3 CPU is 3 times more capable than Xbox.
"And in terms of performance measured in gigaflops, the PS3 tops out at nearly three times that of the Xbox. "- IGN
http://gear.ign.com/article...
for a same gen console, that is extremely large difference. Also the reason why 360 does not have folding@home as Shadow Flare said
Didn't heal my shoulder injury. I better go to a real doctor. /s
do you realize the importance of protein folding to finding cure to many diseases and many other scientific advancements??
only injury you have is stupidity. and no doc can fix that
My problem is I can't do anything with my PS3 when using folding@home if it was in the background I would use it more
If I'm using my ps3 just to play some music in my room, then I'll put on folding@home since it plays music while it does it
I'm going to start doing it because my ps3 is very rarely on. Might as well do some good for the world.
I don't own a 360 you spacker. It may come as a blow, but some people don't worship a piece of plastic and metal the same way you do.
EDIT:It's amusing how you get labeled as being a 360 owner because you dare to downplay anything wrong with the ps3. I haven't owned a 360 for over 2 years, I sold it because it had nothing out I wanted.
Which would be the same fate for my ps3 if it had nothing coming out next year. This year has been dismal.
yeah gow iii, heavy rain, 3d dot heroes, wkc, rof, ffxiii, modnation racers, 3d dot heroes, demon souls (eu), move, sports champions, start the party,tumble
thats alot of game/peripherals already out this year that i bought alone, not to mention upcoming games such as time crisis, the fight, gt5.
if that is a lack of games then i call you blind
Microsoft should be supporting folding@home as well on the 360. Bill Gates is always seen donating money to charity, so why not help with this project? They should try and get it integrated into the OS of PC's, Mac's and all the consoles, and have it running in the background.
yea the 360 fans would never us it. Not because they dont care per say but because they dont want to risk it overheating and causing RROD.
MS won't support folding @ home on the 360, and I'll tell you why:
The TFLOPs fact reports like this one.
A task like protein folding is something the Cell processor is exceptionally good at (as you can see from the numbers) -- and the 360 would look weak, in comparison, despite its being a decent games console.
MS will never, ever, do something that would make the 360 look markedly inferior to the PS3. Like having folding@home. Doesn't matter to them if it saves lives or not. It would be bad publicity, and would hurt their brand, and that's all they care about. Sad but true.
Honestly the RRoD issue mentioned in a comment above is also a concern. MS doesn't want *every* old 360 coming back for a free refurb. The publicity issue is the main reason, though.
How a couple of egos and extrinsic motivations turned Folding@home into a bloody cold war competition, where work units were as valuable as kill counts.
Looking at the lights (Places where Folding@home users are supposed to be). I noticed a few of them where in places I don't think I'd ever expect them to have any sort of technology, much less a PS3, EVEN moreso Folding@home. Such as:
- An isolated island
- The middle of Atlantic (No Island here, WTF)
- Some where in the nether mountain regions of Nepal (possibly Shangri-la)
Damn, PS3 you scary...
-End statement
I actually blame the 150+ work units my first PS3 contributed into Folding as the reason it died. Sadly, this is why I hardly do any Folding now.
You can always give some money to charity if you feel like helping without the folding.
i have done 340 work unit on folding @ home so if anyone want to join me i'll give you the code to join in.
