{"id":118,"date":"2007-03-26T09:01:45","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T17:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2007-03-26T09:25:57","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T17:25:57","slug":"can-the-ps3-save-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/118","title":{"rendered":"Can the PS3 save humanity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Folding@HomeO.k. that title is a bit over the top, though it is interesting and possible with recent developments. Stanford University has since 2000 been sponsoring a distributed processing project called Folding@Home<\/a> who’s goal is “to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.” A recent update to the firmware of the Playstation 3<\/a> added a Folding@Home client which has been optimized to take advantage of the multi-core cell processor present in the console. Since that processor was designed for extreme math performance, it was a smart idea to make use of it.<\/p>\n

The results are impressive. When I looked this morning at the OS Stats page<\/a>, the PS3 represented only 16% of the active CPUs but have produced 65% of the recent output. It takes about 63 PS3 (and their 7-8 cores) to produce a TFLOP (teraflop) of computing power compared to 1048 Windows-based PCs to produce the same results.<\/p>\n

I look forward to seeing the long-term benefits from all of the additional power.<\/p>\n

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