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PS3 breaks Folding@home Petaflop barrier on its own

September 27, 2007 | Author: play-beyond | Filed under: Folding@home

Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) Senior Development Manager for Research and Development Noam Rimon posted an article over at the official PlayStation Blog regarding another milestone for the PlayStation 3 console in connection with Standford University’s Folding@Home project.

It was only last week that the entire project has finally broken the so-called Petaflop barrier. It means that Folding@Home was finally able to accomplished more than a quadrillion floating point operations per second. Then comes this record-breaking news, revealed by Rimon:

The influx of gamers supporting this cause has grown so greatly that we’ve actually broken a second record within a week! This time the aggregated computation power of the PS3 consoles - by themselves - has crossed the Petaflop line.

As can be seen from the stats page over at Stanford, PS3 consoles are delivering 1020 TFLOPS (that’s over 1 Petaflop) from 41,145 participants.

Source: PlayStation.Blog

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wow that’s great,
for pc, the highest number only 165..
that’s only about 10% of the current tflops by ps3..

pc users can’t beat ps3 gamers

sub_zero wrote on September 28, 2007 - 4:54 pm | Visit Link

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