PS3 Client

[SiriusB]

Okay, I have just spent the last half hour looking for info on Stanford about the PS3 client but there isn't much about...

Basically I wanna know if the PS3 client will be using all or just part of the Cell processor? If all of the processor then how to Stanford plan to manage the points, as Stanford leads me to believe that the PS3 would have the output of a supercomputer :|

SiriusB

 

[SiriusB]

Not a great deal of info there, but thanks anyway

I am just curious you see as they have made out it will have the power of a super computer... meaning points-wise they would have to keep it in the same ballpark as the rest of the clients.

A supercomputer in a 400 quid box... will take a bit of thought to make it fair!

SiriusB

 

[SiriusB]

Yeah I was thinking about a different league, but the problem with that is for the vast majority of PS3 crunchers the points difference is only down to how long you have been folding.

I mean how many people are likely to buy PS3 farms? At least a PC is useful even if you only originally bought it as a dedicated cruncher. Not much you can do with 10 PS3s that you can't do with just the one

SiriusB

 

[SiriusB]

Same could be said for PC farms.

I have 10 PCs and 2 laptops folding at the moment but I only use 2 PCs regularly (1 for gaming and 1 for general work/surfing) and 2 occasionally (bedroom equivalents of the 2 mentioned) and 1 laptop regularly - the other 6 PCs and the other laptop are run for no other reason than Folding@Home. Not much point to them - but I enjoy it (most of them are high end rigs too ).

Stan

ahh yes, but if you wanted you could use those same PCs for a rendering farm [if you ever got into that lol] or perhaps you could set some up as Internet or email servers etc etc etc...

Basically what I am saying is a PC has many uses while it folding.... and you can also sell it quite easily and probably get a good return. PS3 will be worth half its value in less than a year of being released!

SiriusB