| Folding@Home: PS3 Sunday Night Foldathan (SNF) Reminder and Current PS3 Stats |
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| Written by Alexis M. (Rivithed) | |||
| Sunday, 25 March 2007 | |||
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In just a few days since it's debut on March 22nd, Folding@home PS3s (currently active at the time of this writing) are hitting 706 TFLOPS (teraflops). That's nearly three times the amount of all other currently active OS stats combined (255 TFLOPS processed on Windows, Mac OS X PowerPC, Mac OS X Intel, Linux, GPU). Now take into account how many PS3 CPUs that is compared to the rest of those CPUs on the active list: 28,834 total active PS3 CPUs to all other 198,289 active CPUs combined. The PS3's CPU processing power packs quite a punch.
PS3 gamers, remember to join in tonight's Sunday Night Foldathon-SNF (read details here) and see how much we can crunch together in this joint effort. We'll bring an update later on to see how those numbers jump. Join up with our group, under team id 54955. Check the most recent folding stats here and what they mean. Gizmodo's Adam Frucci has initiated a plea for Microsoft to bring Folding@home to the Xbox 360, noting that "there are many times more Xboxes out there than there are PS3s, you'll start at an advantage and this thing could really take off." Sounds like a good idea that surely many Xbox 360 gamers may have pondered upon learning of Sony's effort. No doubt it'll lead to inevitable processing power comparisons to fuel fanboy wars. However, if not the Folding@home project, it's clear that even a few gamers whom contribute their gaming processing power can make a significant impact.
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