Folding@home embraces Playstation 3 Cancer-curing 100 gigaflops per consoleBy Dean Pullen: Thursday 24 August 2006, 11:03 THE DISTRIBUTED computing network designed to study protein folding and protein folding disease, Folding@home, has announced plans to launch a service on the upcoming Sony Playstation 3.Via the Playstation 3's Cell processor, Folding@home expects to achieve performance of around 100 gigaflops per console, whilst reaching the petaflop level with around 10,000 consoles working in conjunction. The project is currently named 'Cure@PS3'.The network hopes to apply the new processing power allowed by the network of Playstation 3's to push Folding@home into a new level of capabilities, applying simulations to further study of protein folding and related diseases, including Alzheimer’s Disease, Huntington's Disease, and certain forms of cancer.The PS3 Folding@home client will also support some advanced visualisation features. While the Cell microprocessor does most of the calculation processing of the simulation, the Nvidia supplied RSX graphics chip of the console displays the actual folding process in real-time using new technologies such as HDR and ISO surface rendering. It's even possible to navigate the 3D space of the molecule using the interactive controller of the PS3, allowing users to look at the protein from different angles in real-time.This is probably one of the best uses for wasted processing power (and GPU power), and we hope PS3 users adopt the client en masse. More from the Folding@home Cure@PS3 project page, here. µ
The company that created the transistor radio and the Walkman is at the precipice. If Sony's new $600 console doesn't blow gamers away, it may be time to say sayonara.
PS3 downgraded againRSX woes this timeBy Charlie Demerjian: Monday 28 August 2006, 16:43Click Here!IT LOOKS LIKE the PS3 is way too powerful for us mere humans, and because the value is so overwhelming, Sony is going to make it a little more palatable. The RSX, previously scheduled to run at 550/700 core/memory has been realigned with expectations and the value chain at 500/650.We can't tell you why the GPU lost nearly 10% of it's clock, it could be an NVidia screwup, or it could be Sony/Cell. Either way, it just became much less of an overwhelming value, but you get a DRM infected drive for 'free' either way.As a help to the fanbois who inevitably write in somewhat curious broken englishish every time their precious console gets re-specced in a downward manner, please cut and paste the following. It will save you at least an hour trying to figure out the parts of the keyboard that are not WASD:You teh sux0r 2 sae teh PS3 is not going to teh r0x0r! Yew lie, yew 360 luvr. U teh sux! U maek thing up, go die!!!1111one!1!!!1 hehehehehAs for Sony, I know your reaction, you are going to start a whispering campaign on the forums like last time. Please give the PR genius who thought that one up a promotion and a raise. It worked so well to cower me that I got more inside sources disgusted with you third rate backstabbing attempts than I got in a year. Please do it again, I didn't take offense last time, and I promise not to this time
oh my god im a ps fanboy but who gives a shit if sony does crap they do crap but please dont compare to Xbox360 compare to wii at least cuz wii is awesome unlike.... anyway lmao i was originally going to copy and paste your rant but i had to go original lmao
