Count me in, I just started my ps3 on a work unit
This is very cool, what a great use of the PS3's cpu brawn. I wish you could make the molecules it draws in the lower right corner be full screen.
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Count me in, I just started my ps3 on a work unit
This is very cool, what a great use of the PS3's cpu brawn. I wish you could make the molecules it draws in the lower right corner be full screen.You can, press the buttons on your controller...forget which one does it.Count me in, I just started my ps3 on a work unit
Oh you're right! I was using the bluetooth remote control so I didn't think about using the analog sticks and select. Very cool.
It was mentioned in a thread on the Folding@home forum. (sorry I cant' remember which
)I think ~17k PS3 users is a incredible start, but I do wonder how long the rapid uptake will last, and what sort of impact the sunday night fold-a-thon will have. Although if you were interested in folding, wouldn't you check it out before sunday? I would
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I think it's more like a 2nd party deal, maybe 1st party even, depending on who did what...
. And it was Sony who made the initial enquirery to Stanford, I feel like it's only a matter of time. Noam Rimon said:
I really hope they can get a much higher %, especially for the long term. Imagine if Folding@Home becomes a habit for 10+%, in 3 or 4 years that could lead to insane increase in TFLOPS for them
I think ~17k PS3 users is a incredible start, but I do wonder how long the rapid uptake will last, and what sort of impact the sunday night fold-a-thon will have. Although if you were interested in folding, wouldn't you check it out before sunday? I would
Since the active measurement is based on 2 days (for PS3), I think folders will participate in fold-a-thon just to hit some large numbers.
I really hope they can get a much higher %, especially for the long term. Imagine if Folding@Home becomes a habit for 10+%, in 3 or 4 years that could lead to insane increase in TFLOPS for them
They should have higher than 1% in terms of geekhood ratio (because we are still in early adoptor range), but not everyone will leave their expensive PS3 running all day/weeks. F@H is also not the primary purpose of a PS3 (people want to play games/music/movie !), plus it only starts after at least 10 minute of idle time and, unlike real screensavers, is a little troublesome to quit, so some may turn autoexec off eventually.
1% (sometimes lower, sometimes higher) can be used for estimating untargeted conversion. So it might turn out to be the right number. I don't know.
Folding @ Home on Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Mar21/0,4670,GamesNewsBytes,00.html#
Click on 'PlayStation used to help fuel research' on the right inset.
(465 TFLOP @ 18992 PS3s now)
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Mar21/0,4670,GamesNewsBytes,00.html#
Click on 'PlayStation used to help fuel research' on the right inset.
(465 TFLOP @ 18992 PS3s now)
Thinking about, I find it pretty amazing!
Sony must be pretty confident about the build quality of their system. Imagine all units running 24-7 at close to maximum stress with the fan working continuously. It must in the end cost Sony a few more extra replacement units.
This feature comes at prize, but obviously Sony feel confident at bearing that cost. I think that is a good sign.
I wonder if similar services will turn up on the competing consoles?
Maybe those are the sort of thing's they'll tweek over time? It seems, from the Stanford forum, that they are working quite closely on the clients front end/usability. In the case sited, going as far to fix the number of characters for the user name, if they're willing to do that, I think chances are good they'll continue to polish it all round.
What do you have to through to quit the client?
Well, yeah, no one knows <looks for 'broken-crystal-ball-smilie>, but don't you think it'd be -really great- to have something that could contribute on such a large scale? Although if PS3 gets anywhere near PS2 numbers I think even ~1% would provide 'wow' TFLOPS, but more's always better, right?
There are two ways to quit the client. The standard PS3 Home button menu and select quit or hitting Triangle and bringing up the menu and selecting quit.
I can see people continuing to run the client because it has a very clean and polished feel to it. The slowly spinning globe with the lights for other clients is very beautiful. Also once you have it set as your screensaver I can see that will at least keep you running it here and there even if you have stopped with the huge folding sessions that many people are doing now.
If there was one interface change I would like to see it would be that if the client starts in screensaver mode that it just exits on any input - or at least an option to have it do that.
I can see people continuing to run the client because it has a very clean and polished feel to it. The slowly spinning globe with the lights for other clients is very beautiful. Also once you have it set as your screensaver I can see that will at least keep you running it here and there even if you have stopped with the huge folding sessions that many people are doing now.
If there was one interface change I would like to see it would be that if the client starts in screensaver mode that it just exits on any input - or at least an option to have it do that.
This is a good possibility.
Imagine being part of a multipetaflop planetary effort.
My guess Sony is pretty confident of the robustness of their console technology and expect statistically minimal problems.
If MS try something like that they will burn 1 third of their consoles
Here's some mindless statistics for you
PC Folding :
~ 1 Gflop per CPU
Maximum power if all users active = 1600 TFlops
GPU folding :
~ 60 GFlops per GPU
Maximum power if all users active = 130 TFlops
PS3 folding :
~ 25 GFlops per CPU
Maximum power if all users active = 550 TFlops
PC Folding :
~ 1 Gflop per CPU
Maximum power if all users active = 1600 TFlops
GPU folding :
~ 60 GFlops per GPU
Maximum power if all users active = 130 TFlops
PS3 folding :
~ 25 GFlops per CPU
Maximum power if all users active = 550 TFlops
- The PC would win out in a concerted effort through sheer numbers.
- GPUs only need to sell half as many as PS3s to match performance. When current top GPUs become common place (5 years??) the potential GPU increase could be massive.
- PS3 needs to attract 64,000 users to match PC's current peak.
- If just 1% of the current PS3 userbase got involved, that'd be about 300,000 PS3s, and 7.5 Petaflops . If this thing became active across all PS3s...
Here's some mindless statistics for you
PC Folding :
~ 1 Gflop per CPU
Maximum power if all users active = 1600 TFlops
GPU folding :
~ 60 GFlops per GPU
Maximum power if all users active = 130 TFlops
PS3 folding :
~ 25 GFlops per CPU
Maximum power if all users active = 550 TFlops
- The PC would win out in a concerted effort through sheer numbers.
- GPUs only need to sell half as many as PS3s to match performance. When current top GPUs become common place (5 years??) the potential GPU increase could be massive.
- PS3 needs to attract 64,000 users to match PC's current peak.
- If just 1% of the current PS3 userbase got involved, that'd be about 300,000 PS3s, and 7.5 Petaflops
There's 30 million PS3s out there? News to me.
There will be..
Sony just need to stop slow down abit with all the great games coming for PSP, so that their userbase will upgrade to PS3.
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