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To: Bogey78O

OS Type...........Current TFLOPS*....Active CPUs... Total CPUs

Windows.....................153..............160471...........1626988

Mac OS X/PowerPC......7...............8801...............95463

Mac OS X/Intel.............9................2880...............7452

Linux............................. 43..............25267............216117

GPU.............................. 43................733...............2228

PLAYSTATION®3.......697..............28441.............32064

Total..............................952............226593..........1980312


Not far from the magic petaFLOP barrier, at 4:40 am CST 3/25/07.

It is amazing that 32,000 PS3s are already crunching away. While the PS3 doesn't solve all of the calculations required to fold a protein, it does run the Implicit Water Molecule Solvents amazingly fast.


4 posted on 03/25/2007 2:51:38 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: texas booster
Details, please?

Can you give me a link to the relevant parts of the Folding@Home website?

(Solvent effects have always been the bane of protein simulations.)

Cheers!

6 posted on 03/25/2007 8:55:18 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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