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To: Straight Vermonter

The PS3s being used to help achieve petaflop processing with Folding@Home kind of proved a system like this would be useful.


35 posted on 06/09/2008 1:02:59 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat; Straight Vermonter
Latest update from 300,000 (!) computers and PS3s all folding for science at the Folding@Home project.

All of these systems together slightly beat the Roadrunner system.

Client statistics by OS


OS Type Current TFLOPS* Active CPUs Total CPUs
Windows 189 198529 2043258
Mac OS X/PowerPC 7 8536 116294
Mac OS X/Intel 26 8500 50868
Linux 69 40433 306753
GPU 133 1930 8605
PLAYSTATION®3 1510 53560 535096
Total 1934 311488 3060874



51 posted on 06/11/2008 9:13:37 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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