Keep in mind that I have been folding since 2001 or 2002 with CPUs, between 30 and 50 systems most of that time. Klutz has has over 400 CPUs running at once.
Here you come with 10 GPUs and a Playstation (!!) and will pass my points total in 3 months. Arrrgh.
I also saw that Stanford has looked at the whole FLOPS issues and decided to adjust FLOPs (but not points).
F@H is now running at 8.8 petaFLOPS. Insane.
I have nothing but respect for long-time folders that got their points the hard way. From what I’ve read, the reason GPUs are capable of such a high Points-Per-Day is not only that modern GPUs are quite powerful, but also because the GPU work units are different. The GPU work is considered more valuable by Stanford, so they bumped up the points to encourage people to do GPU folding. The same is true of the Playstation 3 work, but I believe they actually lowered the points for that work (they arbitrarily chose 1000 PPD) because otherwise the casual PS3 folders would crush everyone else. Even now I think most of the FLOPS come from PS3 users.
By the way, if anyone has a Facebook account, there’s an application that lets you track your points on your profile. I just joined and I’m the only team member right now:
http://apps.facebook.com/proteam/showteam.php?team_id=36120