RSSSony Reports Successes with PS3 Folding@home
By Ed Oswald | Published April 26, 2007, 1:08 PM
Sony said Thursday that over 250,000 console owners have registered to participate, and at any given moment provide over 400 teraflops of additional computing power, which is more than half of the total available to the project. With the addition of the PlayStation 3, Sony says the Folding@home project is one of the world's most powerful distributed computing projects.
"Thanks to PS3, we have performed simulations in the first few weeks that would normally take us more than a year to calculate," program lead and Stanford University associate professor Vijay Pande said. "We are now gearing up for new simulations that will continue our current studies of Alzheimer's and other diseases." Sony says it has also released an updated version of the application, which is automatically delivered to current participants after the application is restarted.
As many PS3 owners have nothing better to do than running Folding@home on their PS3s due to lack of good games, this doesn't surprise me.
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|It's in idle time dummy...
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|Success?
If I open a business and get a billion customers to come buy stuff, yet I never make a dollar, is it a success?
I think until they actually cure something or make a breakthrough, all it is is some number crunching.. who knows it it will really do any good.
But.. leave it to sony to put a positive spin on nothing.
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|yea number crunching that would have to be done anyways. sony makes up more than 50% of the computing power available, so they could either make a donation for equipment directly or have an useful application on their console which helps researchers for no cost... positive spin on something positive? how dare they...
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|All I'm saying is - Have any tangible results come from this? Whether it be from Sony or the whole folding at home project alltogether since it was created.
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|only scumbags like you see $'s everywhere. "if it don't make money it isn't a success"
what a retarded view.
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|well the point of business is to make money silly
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|It's probably the only legit good PR that Sony has done in quite some time. Bravo for a step in the right direction.
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|At least there's now 1 reason to buy a PS3.
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|No, F@H does not use 'idle time'. It is a program that you run right from the XBM or can be set to activate as if you let your PS3 sit idle for 10 minutes or so.
There are around 3.5 million PS3s out there with only around 30000 active people folding right now. I guess there are just too many good games to play for the vast majority of PS3 owners. And even for the people who do fold, almost everyone does it at night after they go to bed or while they are away at work or school. Just one eight hour folding session overnight with a PS3 has the same result as spending a full week on a x86 desktop PC.
Whoops, guess I just messed up your troll...
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|Folding@Home really is an amazing use of spare CPU cycles. If you know more than a few people, you'll probably have some experience of knowing someone who's had an encounter with cancer.
Let's not knock something as worthwhile as this over something as transitory as fan-boy politics...
:-)
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|From my understanding this program uses IDLE processor cycles to do its folding function.
DOes this mean that THAT many PS3s are going unused?
Or perhaps all the games just dont really require quite that much since most people might just be playing their PS2 games on the new system...or watching Blu-ray movies ( not ) ?
At least they are being put to some use...even if it was not their originally intended one.
Latz, SB
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|More like flopping at home.
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|In other news the creator of playstation 3 has resigned.
http://news.com.com/8301...823-7.html?tag=nefd.aof
/must have just realized he was on a sinking ship.
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|UPDATE: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. confirmed Kutaragi's departure to CNET News.com and provided this statement: "Mr. Kutaragi has said that he has been considering this decision for some time...With the March introduction of PS3 in Europe completing the successful launch of PS3 worldwide, Mr. Kutaragi has identified SCE?s Annual Shareholders? meeting in June as the ideal timing to pass on the torch to the new generation of management. Mr. Kutaragi will now apply his extensive technological knowledge and leadership skills to take on new challenges beyond the world of PlayStation."
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|Wow you posted my link, seriousily do you read ANYTHING?
Its called spin, they can say anything they want to make it look like he has been deciding to resign for quite sometime, the fact remains is the expected sales are far lower then expected
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|When someone leaves the head of a company they ALWAYS say something like "for personal reasons" or whatever to make it sound voluntary and positive. If you really believe that, well of course you believe it. You're a Sony sheep and believe anything they tell you.
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|Perhaps it's because he'll turn 50 in August, and he might want to retire while he's still young enough to enjoy his money? Or doesn't that have any merit as a possibility to you lot?
(I envy him in that regard, as I believe the working age will likely be 70 by the time I reach retirement, and I dread having to work at that stage in my life, but alas I will never be able to afford retiring any earlier than that...)
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|Time to play the lotto.
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