PS3 not powerful enough?

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Wasn't going to post this as it will probably spark another long discussion ;) but:
I think the figures below speak for themselves. assuming the Folding@home people haven't made a huge error, I'd say that ~14,000 PS3s are kicking 159,000 PC's butts on processing power! More than twice the throughput with less than a 10th of the number of machines....

Considering that my home PC draws around 500w of power for its dual PCIx nVidia cards, Athlon 64x2 4800, 2GB memory and 1.5Tb of harddrives, I'm actually thinking that maybe a PS3 wouldn't be that bad an investment ;)


(courtesy of folding@home - go see them if you haven't already- and Sorry about the formatting, hate these proportional fonts :cry: )
OS Type: TFLOPS: Active CPUs: Total CPUs
Windows: 151: 159113: 1624799
Mac OS X/PowerPC: 7: 8713: 95334
Mac OS X/Intel: 7: 2704: 7196
Linux: 35: 24956: 215680
GPU: 41: 696: 2185
PLAYSTATION®3 338 13807 14743
Total 579 209989 1959937
 
As I understand it the PS3 and GPUs do not do the same kind of folding, they do a less general type. So they may rock the kind of calculation they are doing, but it's less useful I think.

And you PC does not draw 500w doing F@H I'm sure ;)
 
Todd33 said:
As I understand it the PS3 and GPUs do not do the same kind of folding, they do a less general type. So they may rock the kind of calculation they are doing, but it's less useful I think.

And you PC does not draw 500w doing F@H I'm sure ;)
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I haven't seen confirmation yet that the PS3 client is limited in the same way the GPU one is. Not saying it's not possible, but a link would be nice.
 
Quite impressive!
Didn't really interest me when i saw the other thread so i didn't bother to check.
Maybe I should've..
*goes off to read the other thread*
thanks for throwing something interesting my way :)
 
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