PS3 and FahMon?

orderoftheflame · 27 May 2008 at 20:09

Hi, I've started folding again after a 6 month absence, and I was wondering...

Can you add a PS3 to FahMon? I'm already 99.9% sure you can't, but I was just wondering if anyone has found away to do it.

Thanks

theheyes · 27 May 2008 at 20:23

Nope.

The PS3 folding client and OS are a pretty closed system so it isn't easy to poke around and get what you want from it over a network.

orderoftheflame · 27 May 2008 at 20:24

I didn't think so.

I know it would be possible if linux was running F@H on the PS3, but then I think I'd loose a huge amount of points that way.

Thanks anyway!

theheyes · 27 May 2008 at 20:28

Yeah as far as I know you can't access the SPEs under Linux (you couldn't when I last checked) and even if you could there is no optimized client so you'd be running the equivalent of an old PowerMac or something daft like that.

PS3 client is probably the most efficient and stable of all clients because of the fixed platform and hardware.

PhillyDee · 27 May 2008 at 20:59

You get roughly 800-1000 PPD. Mine folds like this whenever im not playing on it.
The advanced flag means sometimes you get a WU that takes a day or 2 to complete as opposed to the 3-4 hour ones.

rich99million · 27 May 2008 at 22:48

Welcome back

Good to have some more PS3-power on the team :cool:

orderoftheflame · 27 May 2008 at 23:30

Glad to be back!

I've only recently returned back from uni, so not all my machines are set up again yet. But give it a week or so and hopefully I'll have a few more ppd than just the PS3.

Yeggstry · 27 May 2008 at 23:45

orderoftheflame said:
Glad to be back! I've only recently returned back from uni, so not all my machines are set up again yet. But give it a week or so and hopefully I'll have a few more ppd than just the PS3.

Welcome back

You've piqued my curiousity, what else have you got?

orderoftheflame · 28 May 2008 at 10:55

Hehe, nothing blazing I'm afraid, just an old Athlon X2, and a few P4s if I can get them going.

theheyes · 28 May 2008 at 17:33

PhillyDee said:
You get roughly 800-1000 PPD. Mine folds like this whenever im not playing on it.
The advanced flag means sometimes you get a WU that takes a day or 2 to complete as opposed to the 3-4 hour ones.

Yeah I fold on mine occasionally, what I meant was if you booted into Linux and ran the Linux client the OS only has access to the PowerPC core which is normally used as a scheduler for the SPEs so your PPD would be minimal (not to mention a waste of power, in both senses of the word)