PS3 Folding@Home launches this month

Posted 15 March 2007 - 10:56 PM

Sony and Stanford have officially announced their Folding@Home client for the PS3.

http://www.scei.co.jp/folding/en/

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3/15/2007 Major announcement regarding FAH/PS3
Sony Computer and Entertainment and Folding@Home are having a joint press announcement on the Stanford campus at 9am pacific time this morning. There will be national media there to cover the event, and so details will appear later today. We'll make our own more detailed announcement on our news page later.

For now, please check out our PS3 FAQ for the details that have been released so far, Sony's page and news pieces in the SF Chronicle and SJ Mercury News.

http://folding.stanford.edu/news.html

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Posted 15 March 2007 - 11:59 PM

It's about freakin time!!!!!!!!! Now Brewin and I can finally unleash the true power of our beasts!!!!!!!!!

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Posted 16 March 2007 - 12:41 AM

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Now Brewin and I can finally unleash the true power of our beasts!!!!!!!!!

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Posted 16 March 2007 - 04:12 AM

scaramonga, on Mar 15 2007, 07:41 PM, said:

Why is that funny?! Or are you thinking dirty minded again? :crazy:

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Posted 16 March 2007 - 10:22 PM

chriso_86, on Mar 15 2007, 06:59 PM, said:

Now Brewin and I can finally unleash the true power of our beasts!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, here's some discussion about this:
http://forum.folding...topic18493.html

There's still a lot of debate about how fast it really is, but Prof. Pande had this to say:

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For certain WU types, the PS3 is 20x the speed of a typical PC. It's very, very fast.

I just wonder how it compares to the GPU client, which is much faster than any CPU client.

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Posted 20 March 2007 - 05:06 AM

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Posted 20 March 2007 - 03:06 PM

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