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holsty101
17-Sep-2007, 04:48
Vijay Pande blog (http://folding.typepad.com/news/2007/09/crossing-the-pe.html)

F@H forum (http://forum.folding-community.org/ftopic21165.html)

Currently at 1031 teraflops.

Go go gadget PS3. :)
Albuquerque
17-Sep-2007, 15:48
Now, I wonder what the combined electrical load was for all those machines? ;)

Pretty sweet!
pjbliverpool
17-Sep-2007, 15:52
They really need to get some clients up and running on the DX10 GPU's. That should push the numbers up a fair bit.
ShaidarHaran
19-Sep-2007, 01:54
I was waiting for this to happen. Surprised it just happened too. The last time I checked the combined folding output it was back down around 800 TFLOPs. Must've been a rather large surge in PS3 folding that caused it.

pj: the GPU client hasn't received any attention lately because the Grad. student in charge of it (V. Vishal) has apparently graduated and is no longer with them. However, they are working at updating the client and moving the newest GB core WUs that are having great success on the PS3 over to the GPU, as noted in Vijay Pande's blog (http://folding.typepad.com/news/2007/09/new-team-for-gp.html). Lots of good info at that link re: PS3 folding especially.
patsu
20-Sep-2007, 00:38
F@H passed 1 petaflop more than once. The one time I noted it down was in May:
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?p=1012343&highlight=petaflop#post1012343
ShaidarHaran
20-Sep-2007, 03:56
F@H passed 1 petaflop more than once. The one time I noted it down was in May:
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?p=1012343&highlight=petaflop#post1012343

It was only officially recognized yesterday, so any temporary spike you may have seen previously would've had to have been a stats error.

We've all been very excited about the great turnout of FAH donors over the last few days, allowing FAH to go over a petaflop.

From Vijay Pande's blog (http://folding.typepad.com/news/2007/09/post-petaflop.html)
SPM
03-Nov-2007, 08:56
Guinness World Records has recognised folding@home (FAH) as the world's most powerful distributed computing network. Sony seems to have hijacked all the credit though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7074547.stm
ShaidarHaran
03-Nov-2007, 14:49
Guinness World Records has recognised folding@home (FAH) as the world's most powerful distributed computing network. Sony seems to have hijacked all the credit though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7074547.stm

I noticed that as well, as it was pointed out in this thread (http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1085471&postcount=10).