[texas booster]

[KarlInOhio]

The most amazing thing on that chart is that nearly 3/4 of the CPU power comes from Playstations.

[bamahead]

tech ping!

[texas booster]

Ping to the new F@H thread!

Remember to check your latest points here:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&t=36120

or here:

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120

Got a new computer? Please check to that you are running F@H under team 36120 and your FReepname.

Have a PS3? The new LEaP topology model is pushing the PS3 “often as many as 35GF in some calculations running in the lab.”

Mac? You should JUMP on the Mac SMP Folding@home kernal. It blows away any other F@H kernal for points per day and is generalized to impact research the most.

Ping me for on or off the list!

[texas booster]

A note to FReepers that may be near Yale University from Dr. Pande:

“I’ll be giving a lecture at Yale this Monday (9/17) in the Molecular Biology and Biophysics Department. If there are folders in Yale curious about what we’ve been doing recently, the lecture would be open.”

[texas booster]

From Dr. Pande’s blog on the new PS3 developments:

“New PS3 version results looking very nice scientifically”

“It’s still early, but the newest PS3 version (1.3) is looking very nice scientifically. While the key science upgrades in 1.3 are very much behind the scenes, they are going to play a big role in our work. In particular, the main code to describe how the protein interacts with water was majorly upgraded (to Generalized Born or GB) and we’re getting very nice results with it, but still at a great speed up over a PC.

“One interesting side effect of this new GB code is that since the code is more sophisticated scientifically, it uses the Cell processor’s ability to do lots of FLOPS much better. One major challenge for PS3 and GPU programming is just getting the data to the CPU. Once that’s done, in many cases (for us), the flops are almost free (or at least very, very efficient).

“So, the upshot is that the new PS3 client in GB does a lot more flops per client, often as many as 35GF in some calculations running in the lab. As we roll out these new GB calcs more and more to FAH/PS3, the performance will go up, and the science we’re getting back will be much more useful, so it will be exciting for us in lots of ways.”

[colinhester]

Time to get a PS3.

[Drango]

proud to be foldin’ bump

[Professional Engineer]

bttt

[ShadowAce]

[Egon]

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[ol painless]

Has anybody ever have a reliable machine all of a sudden throw out EUE’s? My folding machine completed ~60 WU’s just fine, then threw out 5 or 6 EUE’s in a row. I shut it down to run tests but it seems fine.

[prophetic]

btw, what is the power draw on a PS3?

[EasySt]

Well thanks to this, some of you who’ve passed me by should check the rear view mirror. Last night I got my new PS3 online and folding. It’s already on its third work unit. All it’s ever going to do is fold 24/7 except for perhaps watching an occasional BlueRay DVD.

I don’t think I’m going to be stuck at position 66 much longer...

[EasySt]

On second thought, it looks like wysiwyg_FR is going to demote me to position 67 before I get a chance to pass anyone... ;-)

Nice progress wysiwyg, what are you running that’s gobbling up the points so fast?

[Egon]

FAHMonitor has been experiencing some issues this weekend, stemming from a server rebuild.

It's possible over the next couple of days that there will continue to be brief outtages, as I get some @#$%&@ run-away DCOM process issue debugged.

[SunkenCiv]

Folding@home - The PS3 and Post-PetaFLOP
Folding@home: The Science | 09/18/2007 | PandeGroup
Posted on 10/04/2007 12:20:01 PM EDT by texas booster
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1906532/posts

[snip] Folding@home hit a true petaFLOP on Sept 16. Then the PS3 folders hit a petaFLOP by themselves on Sept 23! [end]