Folding@Home a Huge Success on PS3

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Folding@Home a Huge Success on PS3 Video Game Walkthrough Guide coming to WDS!
57% of total processing power now courtesy of those cell processors.
 
Unsettling rumors of impending commercialization notwithstanding, Stanford Universitys Folding@Home project is a great success after only one month of being open for business on the PS3. In an article posted today over at GamesIndustry.biz, Associate professor of Chemistry and Folding@home program lead Vijay Pande revealed that more than 250,000 users have chosen to open their consoles up to the distributed net.

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"The PS3 turnout has been amazing, greatly exceeding our expectations and allowing us to push our work dramatically forward," says Pande. "Thanks to PS3, we have performed simulations in the first few weeks that would normally take us more than a year to calculate. We are now gearing up for new simulations that will continue our current studies of Alzheimers and other diseases."

How much increased productivity does 250,000 cell processors represent anyway? The official numbers for Folding@Home currently put a figure of around 700 teraflops of throughput currently being generated by all combined participants at any given point in time, with 400 of those (around 60%) coming directly from PS3s. As an additional bonus PC participation in Folding@Home has also risen 20% in the last month  no doubt thanks to all the media coverage surrounding Sonys entry into the program. Looks like everybody deserves a pat on the back.

By way of celebration, a new software upgrade will soon be made available for all participants. Folding@Home v1.1 will include visibility of donor locations on a world map, folding calculation speed and protein viewing, additional language support, help screen hints, and improved donorname length and character handling.

As always, jump on board via your PS3s cross media bar, or by checking out the programs website over at Stanford U.

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