Cure@PS3 project

[Dave Baumann]

Using colours as an analogy for processing on a graphics chip is particularly poor, don'tcha think?

However, tests have already proven that GROMACS runs many, many times faster on an R520 than current processors do, and that was bound by DX. The primary processing for F@H has always been a math bound problem, and inhernatly lends itself to the massess of vector math processing that GPU's have in relation to standard CPU's, which is why Stanford have always called the GPU research the "High Performance Client".

 

[Bohdy]

For comparison's sake, a 4-core Kentsfield will approach 100GFLOPS in peak performance, though the real-world efficiency for folding may be less than with steaming architectures like the Cell. Which in the case of the PS3 Cell folding client seems to be around 50%.

 

[Acert93]

Exciting news! Hopefully Sony will run some advertising on their online network, and maybe a little handout in the PS3 box, informing consumers of this. Maybe even a little sticker on the box Lets hope this news gets MS and Nintendo working on similar projects.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Maybe even a little sticker on the box.

Another logo to stick on the side of the PS3!

 

[Arwin]

First news I found on this in mainstream media was on nu.nl today (Dutch newssite).

http://www.nu.nl/news/810939/86/PlayStation_3_helpt_ziektes_te_bestrijden.html

This article references the BBC website

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5287254.stm

(and as you can see it gets the expected and desired headline )

 

[mckmas8808]

First news I found on this in mainstream media was on nu.nl today (Dutch newssite).

http://www.nu.nl/news/810939/86/PlayStation_3_helpt_ziektes_te_bestrijden.html

This article references the BBC website

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5287254.stm

(and as you can see it gets the expected and desired headline )

"PlayStation 3 tackles world ills" is the headline.

Like you said desired headline. Better than the PS3 cures cancer.

 

[zed]

cures cancer is good for pr
what about
PS3 is the new worlds fastest supercomputer based on this line
"nearly four times as fast as the world's most powerful supercomputer"

either way theres a lot of positive spin sony can put on this

 

[mckmas8808]

cures cancer is good for pr
what about
PS3 is the new worlds fastest supercomputer based on this line
"nearly four times as fast as the world's most powerful supercomputer"

either way theres a lot of positive spin sony can put on this

WOW! You're pretty good at this stuff. Are you a retired PR guy?

 

[inefficient]

This very good PR. MS need to get on this ball if they can.

Even I am beginning to feel magnanimous by purchasing a PS3 as a result of this development.

 

[Geo]

Hmm. Will this be the first console app to substantially reward OCing? I wonder if that will lead anywhere. . .

 

[Guden Oden]

Even I am beginning to feel magnanimous by purchasing a PS3 as a result of this development.

And here I am plotting buying a separate PS3 some time in the future to use exclusively as a folding/dedicated server console, while playing and watching movies on the other...!

 

[zed]

WOW! You're pretty good at this stuff. Are you a retired PR guy?

is it so easy to tell, theres nothing like giving pleasure to others, that why i decided to chuck that career in + become a bollux mastabator

 

[mckmas8808]

And here I am plotting buying a separate PS3 some time in the future to use exclusively as a folding/dedicated server console, while playing and watching movies on the other...!

Damn me too man. But I'm going to wait until the system is $200 for the non-HDMI version first. And at this rate I think that maybe the year 2010.

 

[SonyNinja]

Old?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tndoBQJHHrw

 

[Arwin]

Old?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tndoBQJHHrw

It's one of the two 6mb vids that you can download on the PS3 FAQ page at the FAH website. It's not new, but won't be much older than a week either, I think.

 

[Titanio]

This, I think, is new:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QxZ6cDue3yM

Video from the booth presentation at Leipzig. However it's very bad quality, and there's lots of background noise, so it's very hard to tell what's being said. At the end they run it though, and toggle on and off some effects and stuff..hard to see what it is though.

 

[mckmas8808]

This, I think, is new:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QxZ6cDue3yM

Video from the booth presentation at Leipzig. However it's very bad quality, and there's lots of background noise, so it's very hard to tell what's being said. At the end they run it though, and toggle on and off some effects and stuff..hard to see what it is though.

Hard to hear and see, but it's nice.

 

[-tkf-]

CNN.COM

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/fun.games/09/18/playstation.folding/index.html

 

[Carl B]

I like it - good write-up and strong endorsement from CNN.

 

[mckmas8808]

I wonder if other TV news stations will catch on to this in the holiday season? If so the awareness for Cure@Home will be HUGE!!!

The PS3's chip is the same one IBM is using in a supercomputer it's building for the Department of Energy. That computer is expected to reach speeds of one petaflop, or 1,000 trillion calculations per second.

What a way to make people feel like they have a super computer.