Thanks to the addition of many Playstation 3 units (currently 24,417 of them), the Folding@Home project is cumulative doing 851 teraflops per second! This kind of performance is faster than the fastest supercomputer in the world, Blue Gene, which is owned by IBM. The number of Playstation 3 units that are folding is steadily increasing [...]
Not even a full day after the release of the Folding@Home client for the Playstation 3, the total computing power of a mere 6,860 Playstation 3 systems has surpassed that of a vast 158,806 Windows computers! The Playstation 3 systems are calculating at a total of 168 Teraflops per second, whereas the Windows machines are [...]
[clete2@localhost proc]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : Cell Broadband Engine, altivec supported clock : 3192.000000MHz revision : 5.1 (pvr 0070 0501) processor : 1 cpu : Cell Broadband Engine, altivec supported clock : 3192.000000MHz revision : 5.1 (pvr 0070 0501) timebase : 79800000 machine : PS3PF More to come later. I’ll talk about [...]