PS3 Helps Folding@Home Reach World Record Status

mytrip wrote with a note that the PlayStation 3 should be very proud of itself. Sony's monster-powerful console has lifted Stanford's very own distributed computing project (Folding@home) into the record books. "Guinness has apparently certified the project as the world's most powerful distributed computing system. According to a release from Sony, Folding@home topped 1 petaflop last month, meaning that it surpassed a thousand trillion floating point operations per second. By comparison, the well-known SETI@home project has topped out, according to Wikipedia, at around 265 teraflops, or 265 trillion floating point operations a second." There appears to be a team slashdot if you're looking for someone to support. Go fighting 006666!

Impressive!

[seebs]

It'll tank once there's some games out. :)

Re:Impressive!

[AuMatar]

Well, seems like they're safe for a while then.

Re:Crack BLU-RAY!

[TeknoHog]

Like any technology, cancer doesn't officially exist until Microsoft innovates it.

The best department ever

[ReverendLoki]

from the look-at-me-still-talking-while-there's-science-to-do dept.

Now this is great. Nice one.

we did it!!!

[insanius]

wait a minute....what are we bragging about?....the fact that my ps3 has been idle long enough to decode the humpback whale's genome???....wtf....Hurry Sony and release Uncharted!!!!!!!!......

And I thought

[MrCopilot]

and here I thought Sony was only Folding@theMarketplace.