F@H & PS3 makes record books

Those numbers aren't quite accurate. According to Stanford's own stats there aren't even 650 thousand PS3s to have ever made the stats, nevermind anywhere near that many active. At the moment there are just under 260,000 CPUs folding - PC or otherwise. Of those well over 200,000 are PCs So they got that bit right :p
 
there were plans to, wasnt there? im sure i read somewhere that they planned to release a cell varient on an addon card for number crunching duties?
 
Amp34 said:
I wish they would release that chip for PCs..
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Define PC. IBM will sell you a blade with one in it. It runs Linux. If by PC you mean x86, then there's no chance of that (except for in an expansion card which might be cool). ;) If by PC you mean desktop/laptop form factor I don't think we'll see one of those. Perhaps a workstation...
 
These articles are getting on my nerves a bit, calling F@H a 'PS3 network' and so on. OK, PS3s now produce most of F@H's teraflops, but teraflops are a poor measure of utility to the project (look at GPUs). And F@H was around a long time before the PS3 client!
 
You lot don't still believe journalists, do you? :D

But Conga Rats to all you Foldy types on getting into the record books, anyway!

Alan Woodford
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Define PC. IBM will sell you a blade with one in it. It runs Linux. If by PC you mean x86, then there's no chance of that (except for in an expansion card which might be cool). ;) If by PC you mean desktop/laptop form factor I don't think we'll see one of those. Perhaps a workstation...
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Trust the pedant to turn up at the party.;)

Yeah I meant standard desktop form factor.

Wait a sec, when did the term PC (personal computer) become synonomous with a blade server?:p
 
The line is very blurry these days, isn't it? There's a guy in my company with a 3 blade rack at his desk he uses for database development (or something like that, he always seem to look busy :p). It's his personal computer but nobody would call it a PC, right?
 
BillytheImpaler said:
The line is very blurry these days, isn't it? There's a guy in my company with a 3 blade rack at his desk he uses for database development (or something like that, he always seem to look busy :p). It's his personal computer but nobody would call it a PC, right?
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Probably trying to cover-up the fact he's nicked 3 blades from the server room :p
 
Amp34 said:
Trust the pedant to turn up at the party.;)
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We have meetings now!
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