{"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":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/folding.stanford.edu\/pics\/shot-00007.jpg\" title=\"Folding@Home PS3 screenshot\" alt=\"Folding@Home PS3 screenshot\" align=\"right\" border=\"3\" height=\"148\" width=\"254\" \/>O.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 <a href=\"http:\/\/folding.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Folding@Home<\/a> who&#8217;s goal is &#8220;to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.&#8221; A recent update to the firmware of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.playstation.com\/PS3\" target=\"_blank\">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<p>The results are impressive. When I looked this morning at the <a href=\"http:\/\/fah-web.stanford.edu\/cgi-bin\/main.py?qtype=osstats\" target=\"_blank\">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<p>I look forward to seeing the long-term benefits from all of the additional power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"poweredbyperformancing\">powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/performancing.com\/firefox\">performancing firefox<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.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 who&#8217;s goal is &#8220;to understand protein folding, misfolding, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/118\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-1U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}