PS3 floating point crunching eating windows/wintel machine at breakfeast

Details: Category: Sony PS3; Published on Friday, 23 March 2007 21:38; Written by Administrator; Hits: 8390

According to Folding@ home, the PS3 raw cpu power is impressive.
Since 2000 and in less than a year on the market, it look like the Sony PS3 is 10 times more powerful than any PC. With 10 times less CPU, it process twice more TFLOPS

OS Type	Current TFLOPS*	Active CPUs	Total CPUs
Windows	151	159144	1624849
Mac OS X/PowerPC	7	8713	95337
Mac OS X/Intel	7	2716	7204
Linux	35	24959	215690
GPU	41	697	2185
PLAYSTATION®3	346	14138	15079
Total	587	210367	1960344

I would like also to mention the Sunday Night Foldathon (S.N.F)

Sunday Night Foldathon is a great way to help Stanford University's with there new Playstation 3 Folding@Home program.

The S.N.F event is simple. On Sunday Night (March. 25th 2007) everyone who wants to participate in the S.N.F event simply turn there PS3 on and start the folding program, could be anytime you want or when you goto bed, you may let the program run as long as you want but would be great if it could atleast last till 7am Monday morning, its all up to you since anything helps. This is to see how much help we (the playstation community) can be for this program and to show them that the feature is being widely used and maybe saving lives in the process.

Team Name: " Sony PlayStation 3" 54751 Joining this team is not required you may join any team.

I will for sure order one, I just do not want to stay for hours outside shops, at the end I've made the same for the XBOX 360