Comments on: Folding@Home Does a PetaFLOPS http://cybernetnews.com/foldinghome-does-a-petaflops/ Technology News Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:19:52 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/foldinghome-does-a-petaflops/comment-page-1/#comment-121377 Ryan Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:30:52 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/11/01/foldinghome-does-a-petaflops/#comment-121377 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-121236" rel="nofollow">Max wrote:</a><blockquote>The PS3 actually contributes 77% [http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats] [898/1165]of F@h’s total.</blockquote></div> Wow, that is even bigger than reported. Thanks for the updated numbers. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-121264" rel="nofollow">netster007x wrote:</a><blockquote>Wow, that’s amazing! That’s 67 times a supercomputer powered only by idle game consoles. Very cost effective. Sounds kinda like something I heard Google had going w/ their toolbar that got cancelled.</blockquote></div> Google did have something going on, but only in the very early stages of the project. Once the project got rolling they canceled it because it wasn't contributing much. Max wrote:
The PS3 actually contributes 77% [[fah-web.stanford.edu]] [898/1165]of F@h’s total.

Wow, that is even bigger than reported. Thanks for the updated numbers.

netster007x wrote:
Wow, that’s amazing! That’s 67 times a supercomputer powered only by idle game consoles. Very cost effective. Sounds kinda like something I heard Google had going w/ their toolbar that got cancelled.

Google did have something going on, but only in the very early stages of the project. Once the project got rolling they canceled it because it wasn’t contributing much.

]]> By: netster007x http://cybernetnews.com/foldinghome-does-a-petaflops/comment-page-1/#comment-121264 netster007x Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:44:00 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/11/01/foldinghome-does-a-petaflops/#comment-121264 Wow, that's amazing! That's 67 times a supercomputer powered only by idle game consoles. Very cost effective. Sounds kinda like something I heard Google had going w/ their toolbar that got cancelled. Wow, that’s amazing! That’s 67 times a supercomputer powered only by idle game consoles. Very cost effective. Sounds kinda like something I heard Google had going w/ their toolbar that got cancelled.

]]> By: Max http://cybernetnews.com/foldinghome-does-a-petaflops/comment-page-1/#comment-121236 Max Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:31:30 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/11/01/foldinghome-does-a-petaflops/#comment-121236 The PS3 actually contributes 77% [http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats] [898/1165] of F@h's total. The PS3 actually contributes 77% [[fah-web.stanford.edu]] [898/1165] of F@h’s total.

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