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Arthur Lemming · Squire Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 19

Interesting...

http://www.playfuls.com/news_06554_PS3_Supercomputing_Cluster_4_Times_Faster_than_IBMs_BlueGeneL.html

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Eaving · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:17 am Post subject:

Was just coming to post the info, read it over on the register today.
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tishoo · Knight Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 22

1st Shrubbery now being chomped. Plenty fast! (estimates 7ish hours - I'm out of date - how quick would a 3GHz Intel P4 be for comparison?)

Anything that rbings me back to the fold (KWSN and F@H) is a good thing, eh? Smile

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Mildew · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:15 am Post subject:

Speed of workunit depends on its point value.
I think a 3GHz P4 will do ~120 points per day (don't have one myself, but my 1.6GHz P4 laptop does ~60 points per day).

The Folding team is indeed in dire need of help Embarassed

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tishoo · Knight Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 22

2 more shrubberies and hundreds of points in around 22 hours. Amazing!

The stats on the PS3 are stunning - they ALREADY beat out ALL other CPUs devoted to Folding in computational power, and are second only to the highly optimized ATI X1900XT GPU Beta code!

Oh, and (16000+) PS3s single-handedly, within a day, made Folding the most 'powerfully backed' (public) Distributed Computing project on the Planet! Whoa!

I wonder how many of them keep running their units, though - it DOES run warm normally, and I don't like leaving it on all day. Lets see ... this is getting addictive (like it once was)

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Folding news here!
Ps3 Triples Folding Project (Gizmodo)
People clamoring for Folding to be brought to the XBox 360(Gizmodo) (heck, use the CPU AND the GPU!)

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Eaving · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:41 pm Post subject:

Time to get a second PS3 to fold with then? Wink

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Dagger · Prince Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 2918 Location: BC Canada

$800 Cdn for a system up here.
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tishoo · Knight Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 22

Sooo ... 'twould seem I'm the ONLY PS3 Knight?

I run the system around 12-16 hours a day (minus a few minutes to an hour of usage for BluRay discs, or rarely, games) and I'm averaging an easy 600+ points per day so far Smile

And because the PS3 sparked my interest in F@H again, I've fired up both cores of my home Core2 (well, at less than full power to keep things cool) and my OLD firewall system. So I'm back in 1K/day land!

Nice to be back in the top 20 daily Ni! shrubbery producers and help delay any 'Conquests' per the EOC update site!

Soooo ... does anyone regularly read the forums here any more? Lets find out ... one full day of PS3 cranking (I'll change the username to yours for a day, long as it is still for team 117!) for free to whoever recognizes my Folding ID (I've provided more than enough hints Wink

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And do you fokls use any stats sites other than EOC (linked above)? I was thrilled to find it was still around after not Folding for months!
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Eaving · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:37 pm Post subject:

Plenty of us read the forums daily. I dont fold so I wont bother hunting down your user name. Grats on your renewed interest though Smile

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tishoo · Knight Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 22

Gahh - spoilsport :p Hopefully someone else will!

When did Folding become unfashionable anyway? Or is it (I guess) more a case of BOINC benig so configurable and allowing folks to support & help out with so many different important (and some unimportant) DC projects? More altruistic? Smile

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Eaving · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:18 am Post subject:

I can't speak for anyone else here, but in my case its because I'm dominantly a Seti person. Was running the classic client and recently got back in with the Boinc client. Since Boinc makes it easy to run multiple projects I expanded from there to a couple of other projects. Whenever I do spring for a PS3 I'll fold with it if thats the only DC project it has going. If its capable of more than one by then it will depend on the options.
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jonnyv · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:58 am Post subject:

On one of the BOINC mailing lists, Dr. Anderson mentioned that they're working with Sony to get BOINC and 2-3 projects on the PS3 as well. That may be the thing that finally pushes me to get a PS3 - I'd already been thinking about it just for the Blu-Ray player. If I can get that with some crunching, I'm in.
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tishoo · Knight Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 22

The PS3 makes for an INCREDIBLE BluRay player - the best available for now and the most feature-rich too! Game Play is just an added bonus! I only own 3 games so far (including Formula 1 and Motorstorm) but already have a BR disc collection that just hit double digits with my preoredr of Planet Earth on Amazon.com/buy.com Smile

Yeah, the newest Sony standalone BR player will offer the 1080p24 playback/output format for the fancy new 72Hz and even nicer 120Hz LCD TVs to match film cadence/frame rates, and also offers DVD upconversion, but I'm quite sure at least the latter feature will be offered on the PS3 soon enough (they've semi-officially announced it!)

In the interest of full disclosure, the PS3 makes for one awkward integration problem as a home theater component - it doesn't support IR remotes (BlueTooth only)! This means all our fancy MX and Logitech harmony et al remotes are useless for BR viewing - but the PS3 game controller is great. And a BlueTooth Remote is also available. Some folks HAVE hacked a PS2 IR remote to work via the front USB (and then taught the codes to their IR universal remotes) - but this is an ugly kluge!

Playback quality (video) is amazing on my 1080P60 LCD TV. And I am tempted to upgrade to an HDMI HomeTheater receiver to fully enjoy the uncompressed audio track more and more BR discs now include (Optical audio is technically limited to substantially lower bitrates than those required for uncompressed multichannel audio tracks!)

Lots more info about the PS3 as a BR player available at this discussion on the Audio-Video Science Forums
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tishoo · Knight Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 22

Soooooo ....

It appears I'm still the only active Knight with a PS3? Smile

I got a heads-up thruogh the newswires today about the new update for the PS3 F@H client - 30-70% speedup! That'll help my 1K PPD Smile

Watch out, Sir Antigens, I'm gonna push harder for first place PPD Wink

And Sir CadCam - it's over :p

Jokes aside - the PS3 continues to amaze me! I watched Click and a bit of Departed over the weekend in BluRay. Mmm-mmm-mmmmm! And I have Planet Earth on pre(back!)order at Amazon!
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Michelle · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:33 pm Post subject:

We've got an x-box, gamecube and very old playstation so I think we'd have to win the lotto to get a PS3 and some games for it. The Folding is a bonus, and if I ever did get another game machine that would be the deciding factor.
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Antigens · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:28 am Post subject:

Hmmm fast folder. My daughter doesn't have a game system yet could be a rouse to getting one. Twisted Evil

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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Here's a though for you enterprising Kanights: Look online or in the phone book to see if you have any local game/internet cafes. Contact them to see if they would be interested in donating their resources during idle times or after business hours in the form of BOINC. I bet there's at least one in every major city, and they've probably got a bunch of consoles like the PS3 and XBOX360 as well as computers.
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mohrorless · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:52 pm Post subject:

Then the trick is to trick them into letting you get the credit for it.... Twisted Evil

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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

I don't care as long as KWSN gets credit. I mean, yeah, I'd love to borg 20 machines all at once like that, but I don't have to be greedy all the time.

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Sir Furry Mark · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:11 pm Post subject: