My PS3 has folded 293 work units. What about you?

That's a lot! Only a 133 here, but with the weather cooling, I'll be running it a little more again. I figure if I'm going to spend the electricity, I might as well do it when the generated heat counts for something. I have it on Advanced mode by the way - if you just go for WU count, you may get more on regular mode?

 

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445

 

461.

Been on 24/7 since I bought it. Now switched over to advanced mode.

 

Nice testiment to reliability

 

527 as of today. Still hasn't been switched off once. I'm liking this so much I may buy a few 40GB models (lower power consumption) just to fold with!!

 

You've contributed to something big:

"Folding@Home recognised by Guinness World Records"
(... as the most powerful distributed computing network ever.)

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=30144

 

Nice. Except for the part where it says "(Guinness World Records) has officially recognized Sony's Folding @ Home program (as the most powerful DC network).



Last time I checked F@H was run by Stanford's Pande Group.

 

PS3 F@H Teraflops = 900 of 1200 (roughly) or 75% of all processing power. If it were a company they'd own it Just think if the sucker had sold like the xb360!

 

No. There would be no PS3 folding were it not for the YEARS of research and development that went into PC folding. As for sheer teraflops being the only importance to F@H - the "usability" of those teraflops (or rather the work performed) is the most important aspect. This is how point values are determined. It would be more interesting to see a point total comparison of PC folding vs. PS3 folding, IMHO.

 

Of course PC folding led to PS3 folding and the project is Stanford's. That said, the overal "point" leader is...drum roll...PS3 - I assume this is the summation of people who didn't name their PS3s for folding.

It says a lot about cell and the PS3 client imho.

 

The overall point leader on a daily basis is PS3, but the all-time leader is (are) the various PC clients, and by a huge margin at that. There are numerous individual folding teams which have more points than the PS3 client, let alone the aggregate of all PC clients.

When SMP folding comes out of beta and is incorporated into the v6 client, and GPU folding becomes worthwhile, you'll see a rather large spike in PC point production.

 

By then there will probably be quite an increase in the number of PS3's out there and, hopefully, folding.

If you look at the majority of the teams on the ascent, they all started to leap around the time the PS3 was launched. I don't think it's going to take long before the CELL leaves the PC's in the dust.

 

Bah I say! SMP folding will expand greatly once out of beta, and GPU folding will as well if it ever expands beyond the X1650 XT + X19x0 lines. Just think of all the extra performance that will be unlocked once SMP folding gets incorporated into the regular folding client (version 6 brings this).

 

Anyway, about 200 of my 600 wus are on my PS3. The other 400 took literally years to amass on my multiple pcs.

Edit: Why does the new SMP client yield such dramatic improvements over many single-core implementations? It'd be fun to race my PS3 and my Q6600...too bad I ditched the x1800-xt for nV.

 

Not to sure about the benefits of the SMP client. At the moment I am running four instances of the non gui client, and I would say that for every four WU's returned by my PC, the PS3 is doing just as many (if not more) in the same length of time.

 

DOesn't that mean a quad core with good scaling across all cores should be able to achieve similar performance to the PS3?

On average PC's are much slower as there's a lot of old single core CPU's out there but it can't be difficult to build a PC that would leave the PS3 in the dust for folding and at a lower cost than buying a new PS3 at that. All it should take is an uograde to a Q6600 + X1900XT. $400?

 

I seriously doubt this. I folded with two cores on an x2 4400+ and my X1800XT-PE rig (gpu) it was miles slower than my PS3...both in WU and points. So now you want to build a Q6600/X1900XT rig for under $399? Aren't you going to need a PSU, HD, memory, case, monitor, keyboard, etc. to go with that?