PS3 dominating all platforms on the folding@home charts - Blu-ray Forum

powersfoss · 01-22-2008, 03:50 AM

Do you run folding@home on your PS3? If so, take a look at this chart at Stanford's site:

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...?qtype=osstats

This chart shows that by far, Windows has the bulk of the active CPUs currently running with about 184,000 CPUs folding at this moment. Even though there are only 33,300+ PS3s currently active, we PS3 owners are contributing 827 TFLOPS (that's 827 trillion floating point operations per second!) to their 175 TFLOPS.

Even though the ratio of Windows folders to PS3 folders is greater than 5:1, the ratio of work unit processing power is just under 5:1 in favor of the PS3! This is due to the extraordinary power of the 8-core Cell processor at the heart of every PS3 blu-ray player.

Seeing these numbers, I've never been prouder to be a PS3 blu-ray fan.

actionhank · 01-22-2008, 04:14 AM

The ratio of the GPUs is even more impressive. And the PS3 used to contribute even more FLOPS. It almost hit 1100 teraflops at some point with some 45000 active CPUs.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/...rossed-update/

Then Christmas season came and I guess people started playing more games. I am sure eventually we'll reach that point again and surpass it.

I remember reading on some website that 1000 teraflops is equivalent to every human on the planet doing 75000 simple math calculations every second.

kknight · 01-22-2008, 04:41 AM

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Originally Posted by actionhank

I remember reading on some website that 1000 teraflops is equivalent to every human on the planet doing 75000 simple math calculations every second.

whoa! that is amazing.

mystiksuicide · 01-22-2008, 04:52 AM

I have made this my new passion now that Blu-Ray has won the war. We need to make sure that all new PS3 owners are made aware just how powerful the PS3 player really is by folding@home.

Join Team Blu-Ray #56895

Radimus · 01-22-2008, 07:53 AM

i had still yet to check out Folding@Home. so some boredom and this thread inspired me to boot it up and join the team.

bleed-blu · 01-22-2008, 09:40 AM

wow! this sound freaking amazing, except i don't know what any of it means.

01-22-2008, 03:50 AM	#1
powersfoss Senior Member Member since:Feb 2007	PS3 dominating all platforms on the folding@home charts Do you run folding@home on your PS3? If so, take a look at this chart at Stanford's site: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...?qtype=osstats This chart shows that by far, Windows has the bulk of the active CPUs currently running with about 184,000 CPUs folding at this moment. Even though there are only 33,300+ PS3s currently active, we PS3 owners are contributing 827 TFLOPS (that's 827 trillion floating point operations per second!) to their 175 TFLOPS. Even though the ratio of Windows folders to PS3 folders is greater than 5:1, the ratio of work unit processing power is just under 5:1 in favor of the PS3! This is due to the extraordinary power of the 8-core Cell processor at the heart of every PS3 blu-ray player. Seeing these numbers, I've never been prouder to be a PS3 blu-ray fan. Last edited by powersfoss; 01-22-2008 at 04:21 AM.

01-22-2008, 04:14 AM	#2
actionhank Senior Member Member since:Jun 2007 Location:Las Vegas, Nevada	The ratio of the GPUs is even more impressive. And the PS3 used to contribute even more FLOPS. It almost hit 1100 teraflops at some point with some 45000 active CPUs. http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/...rossed-update/ Then Christmas season came and I guess people started playing more games. I am sure eventually we'll reach that point again and surpass it. I remember reading on some website that 1000 teraflops is equivalent to every human on the planet doing 75000 simple math calculations every second. Last edited by actionhank; 01-22-2008 at 04:25 AM.

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