Sunday, March 25th 2007
PlayStation 3 dominates Folding at Home charts
Along with the release of PlayStation 3 in Europe, gamers in Japan and North America updated their Sony monoliths to system software version 1.60. Along with the much needed background downloading, the update brings to the PS3 the ability to help find a cure for cancer with its Folding@home client.
According to the most recent Folding@home client statistics sorted by operating system, the PlayStation 3 leads all other platforms by a huge margin. The PS3 has 367 current TFLOPS, while the next closest is Windows with 151 TFLOPS and more than ten times more CPUs.
When it comes to pure performance though, the PS3's Cell Broadband Processor is still no match for ATI GPUs for protein folding. The GPUs on Folding@home sit at 41 current TFLOPS, which come from only 700 processors. If there were as many GPUs folding as there are PS3s on the network, it can be extrapolated that GPUs could reach 876 TFLOPS.
Below are the current stats:
Source:
DailyTech
According to the most recent Folding@home client statistics sorted by operating system, the PlayStation 3 leads all other platforms by a huge margin. The PS3 has 367 current TFLOPS, while the next closest is Windows with 151 TFLOPS and more than ten times more CPUs.
When it comes to pure performance though, the PS3's Cell Broadband Processor is still no match for ATI GPUs for protein folding. The GPUs on Folding@home sit at 41 current TFLOPS, which come from only 700 processors. If there were as many GPUs folding as there are PS3s on the network, it can be extrapolated that GPUs could reach 876 TFLOPS.
Below are the current stats:
34 Comments on PlayStation 3 dominates Folding at Home charts
is it like all the computers in the world contibute to the folding and update their results online using internet, how do u know if 2 people is folding the same part
PC's are still much more powerfull. The PS3 Gpu is only as powerful as a 7800. According to nVidia.
It is very much a "one purpose" machine, despite how much sony wants it to be the "do it all" machine.
So maybe the only people who thinks it's better than a PC are kids who cant afford a decent PC. Or for people who don't know any better.
But i think most people realize, its still just a console.
and to the OMGPS3PWNSTARPCS comments: Show me a PS3 that can be used in a workstation scenario or server scenario, or even for simple things like word processing. Hmm, wait a second...
Good Luck.
In relation to the PS3 folding, its a damn good thing they started using these cell CPUs for what they were designed for.. which is massive integer performance (note this is not helpful in games and is probably the worst choice ever for a gaming console, a single core P4 would prob beat this round in games)
Any x1800/x1900/x1950 (except pro's for some reason) can fold. My folding is 3x faster since I started using my x1800xt in addition to my cpu. Currently sitting second on the tpu team :D.
4100 kb/s down is only 520 KB/s. and your upspeed is only about 40KB/s.
Pretty average for a Cable connection.
Here are the current stats-
fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats
I really dont see much in it for Microsoft to devote reources and an increase in warranty replacements for something which will die out pretty quickly. I dont see f@home being a USP for the ps3. People dont go out to buy PCs because of f@home now do they (yes there are the exceptions who are a very small minority).