Folding@home Team 56895 and Life with PlayStation - Page 20 - Blu-ray Forum

vladittude0583 · 12-15-2007, 12:43 AM

Yes, I just moved up a notch to rank #91 and climbing.

bilbravo · 12-15-2007, 03:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sharpei

What is this team?! what's is it for?!

Folding@home is a distributed computing project which is governed by Stanford. Basically, while you aren't using your PS3 or PC you can "fold proteins" (which is basically just doing some computations) and upload the results. You'll never even know that you're doing it. My PC does it while I'm idle (and when I'm on the PC it will not take as much CPU) and the PS3 will do it as a screensaver-style program when you leave it on but are not playing a game.

Basically, you are helping research cures for diseases such as cancer, parkinson's, or other genetic diseases/disorders.

Our team is just the collection of all of our individual machines' work added together.

iceman · 12-15-2007, 04:23 PM

#175

Shin-Ra · 12-17-2007, 04:23 AM

PLAYSTATION 3 Gravity Grid - (new?) example of a PS3 cluster used for physics research

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Overall, a single PS3 performs better than the highest-end desktops available and compares to as many as 25 nodes of an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer. And there is still tremendous scope left for extracting more performance through further optimization. More on that soon.

Furthermore, we distribute the entire computational domain across the eight PS3s using MPI (message passing) parallelization. This enables the entire cluster to run together, harmoniously, working on the computation in an efficient way. Each PS3 works on its part of the domain and communicates the appropriate data to the others, as needed.

RickD · 12-17-2007, 04:23 AM

I finally got around to downloading and installing the Windows client. I am Rick_D since RickD was already taken.

Rick

olarmy96 · 12-17-2007, 06:05 AM

If you want more people to join, maybe the site should consider a membership tag associated with this. "Top 100 Folder" or something like that maybe?

Kierre · 12-17-2007, 04:28 PM

<----- # 301 :d

Kierre · 12-17-2007, 04:29 PM

I do actually have a fold under my belt, I hope it updates soon!

Aaron · 12-17-2007, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by olarmy96

If you want more people to join, maybe the site should consider a membership tag associated with this. "Top 100 Folder" or something like that maybe?

If we do that, it should be top 40.

groovyone · 12-17-2007, 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aaron

If we do that, it should be top 40.

Top 10.

bluflu · 12-18-2007, 12:42 AM

Our Folding@Home team just surpassed the 525,000 points needed to be amongst the top 60.

We're currently ranked #58 in weekly processing power.

http://kakaostats.com/index.php?col=8

mofatness · 12-18-2007, 12:45 AM

If you don't mind me asking, what is this?

Dyana B · 12-18-2007, 12:46 AM

BluFlu,
The title of your thread nearly scared the pants off of me. Blu and red should never be in the same sentence, lol...

Manco · 12-18-2007, 12:47 AM

This is awesome. I hope we can break into the top 10.

Imagine... all these blu-ray supporters (PS3 owners) helping mankind decipher some of the worlds most complex scientific problems.

That is just too cool.

mofatness · 12-18-2007, 12:53 AM

I always wondered what that Folding Home icon was for. I'll have to join up tomorrow

Paden · 12-18-2007, 07:30 PM

Dumb question... When you're folding, can you do anything else with the PS3? I have the folding app installed on my PC's at work and they're all capable of multitasking but I don't know that the PS3 version is.

BTW... cracked into the top 80 today! I'm gunning for the Top 40 so look out fellas, here I come!

Shin-Ra · 12-19-2007, 06:01 AM

New Folding@Home Features Coming

I don't quite get the music channels thing but I'm sure it'll be pretty self explanatory once we get our hands on it.

mystiksuicide · 12-19-2007, 06:10 AM

As soon as Cris unpacks his PS3 on Christmas day we are signing on in honor of his mom he passed away this year from that horrible deseas.

Another reason why PS3 / blu must win this battle.

quetzalcoatl · 12-19-2007, 06:47 AM

We have now hit 175 not bad 25 places in less than a month. 150 here we come.

MOONPHASE · 12-19-2007, 07:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paden

Dumb question... When you're folding, can you do anything else with the PS3? I have the folding app installed on my PC's at work and they're all capable of multitasking but I don't know that the PS3 version is.

BTW... cracked into the top 80 today! I'm gunning for the Top 40 so look out fellas, here I come!

sorry no you cant you can only do the other stuff thats in the folding@home like the forums, check your stats, look at the news, etc. but you cant like play a ps3 game while folding so its kind of like something you would do when you are not actually next to your ps3 like at work, sleeping, etc.

12-15-2007, 12:43 AM	#381
vladittude0583 Senior Member Member since:Oct 2007 Location:Jacksonville, FL Blu-ray collection:398 Blu-ray reviews:1 Trading Score:2	My Rank Yes, I just moved up a notch to rank #91 and climbing.

12-18-2007, 12:42 AM	#391
bluflu Special Member Member since:Mar 2007	Blu-ray.com just went red Our Folding@Home team just surpassed the 525,000 points needed to be amongst the top 60. We're currently ranked #58 in weekly processing power. http://kakaostats.com/index.php?col=8

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mofatness Member Member since:Dec 2007 Location:State College, PA	I always wondered what that Folding Home icon was for. I'll have to join up tomorrow

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Paden Active Member Member since:Oct 2007	Dumb question... When you're folding, can you do anything else with the PS3? I have the folding app installed on my PC's at work and they're all capable of multitasking but I don't know that the PS3 version is. BTW... cracked into the top 80 today! I'm gunning for the Top 40 so look out fellas, here I come!

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