Folding@Home on the PS3

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Folding@Home, with HDR visualizations!

Future PS3 owners rejoice as Folding@Home will be available for the PS3 console. The Cure@PS3 project puts the PS3’s Cell processor to good use by folding proteins which is somewhat in line of Sony’s overconfidence of the PS3 rendering the PC useless. Folding@Home performance from the Cell processor is expected around 100 gigaflops per PS3 console and top out one petaflop with 10,000 PS3’s.

In addition to the 100 gigaflop protein folding capabilities, Cure@PS3 will have enhanced visualization features. The enhanced visualization capabilities will take advantage of HDR and ISO surface rendering features of the NVIDIA RSX graphics processor. Molecules can also be navigated in real time using the PS3’s motion sensitive controller allowing users to view the proteins from different angles.
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DailyTech - Folding@Home on the PS3
 
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Sony PlayStation 3 to help the folding@home project

Sony’s upcoming gaming console Playstation 3 is expected to hit the retail stores in November this year.

And owners of this gaming console would have one good reason to be proud off. The company has announced that they are collaborating with US biologists who already run the distributed computing project, folding@home.

This project is aimed at utilizing the capacity of thousands of PCs to examine how the shape of proteins, critical to most biological functions, affects disease.

These two groups now plan to use the awesome computing power of the Playstation 3 gaming console to provide supercomputer levels of data calculation abilities.

Gamers would be able to download a piece of software that uses their PS3’s processing power when it is idle. This piece of application is currently undergoing tests and is expected to be finished by September.
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Why the Playstation 3 owns the PC in F@H

The numbers are in, and the Playstation 3 is tearing up the Folding@Home charts like Michael Jackson on the 1983 Top 40. Check out the latest numbers, and you'll see what I'm talking about:

31,000 PS3s are pushing over three times the TFLOPS of 163,000 Windows boxes, a feat that has many wondering about the hows and whys of the new console's apparent F@H dominance. Let's take a closer look at the phenomenon, starting with the numbers above.

We can begin to get a handle on what's happening by organizing the main contestants by their TFLOPS/CPU ratio. In other words, this metric will give us the average number of TFLOPS per active CPU, which yields a quick-and-dirty view of which systems are bringing the most per-processor power to the project.
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Yup. Folding's gotten a huge boost in its workforce because of Ps3's, they've outnumbered the amount of work PC's all over the world put in.
 
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