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  • PlayStation 3 doubles Folding@home capacity - Articles & reviews

    PlayStation 3 doubles Folding@home capacity. ps3 doubles folding capacity. Stanford University's Folding@home distributed computing project has seen its capacity double in the last month to 700 T Flops thanks largely to the PlayStation 3, according to Sony Stanford University's Folding@home distributed computing project has seen its capacity double in the last month to 700 T Flops thanks largely to the PlayStation 3 according to Sony. The 250,000 folding PS3's now account for 400 T Flops of capacity in the effort to model and understand how proteins "fold" in the quest to solve the mysteries of such diseases as Alzheimers and BSE. The mass of publicity surrounding the PS3 joining the Folding@home network has also seen PC folding jump 20% in the past month, and on Wednesday Sony released an update which it says will increase PS3 calcalation speeds for folding. ...

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  • Fold up a mobo, and roll up the display??! - News

    Fold up a mobo, and roll up the display??!. fold up a mobo. Imagine a folding motherboard, or a display that you roll up like a sheet of paper to stow away, and then when you release a switch, it snaps back to its open position....

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  • NEC Announces Folding LCD Monitors! - News

    NEC Announces Folding LCD Monitors!. nec announces folding lcd monitors. NEC today announced its first line of light-weight LCD monitors that fold up for easy portability. NEC today announced its first line of light-weight LCD monitors that fold up for easy portability....

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  • GPUs to increase Folding@Home processing power up to 500x - News

    GPUs to increase Folding@Home processing power up to 500x. folding at home to use gpus. Folding@Home, launched in 2000 by Stanford Associate Professor Vijay Pande, researches the "folding" process of proteins - a term that refers to the assembling and reassembling of proteins. Computer simulation of these folding processes can help researchers to learn more about the processes and find cures for or even prevent certain diseases. Researchers are far away from being able to calculate folding processes in real time : In fact, 1 ns of folding currently takes about 1 day to calculate - or 1 second will take more than 2700 years on "one fast processor," he said. Join the Tom’s Hardware Guide Community Folding@Home Team Related articles : The hidden potential in your graphics card : A supercomputer...

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  • PlayStation 3 joins Folding@Home - News

    PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to help find the cure for Alzheimer's and other diseases with a new Folding@Home plugin. Stanford (CA) - PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to help find the cure for Alzheimer’s and other diseases with a new Folding@Home plugin. Sony says the new software update will put a Folding@Home item in the network menu of the media bar. The idle running of Folding@Home will only work if the game console is plugged into the network. The Folding@Home project uses the idle processor cycles of thousands of computers to solve complicated folding tasks....

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  • New PS3 update adds download queueing, Folding@Home - News

    New PS3 update adds download queueing, Folding@Home. sony ps3 update firmware. Among the features that will be enabled are allowing downloading to be done in the background, and the ability to tap into Stanford's Folding@Home medical research program.. Among the features that will be enabled are allowing downloading to be done in the background, and the ability to tap into Stanford’s Folding@Home medical research program. The Cell Broadband Engine in the PS3 is powerful enough to be useful for the ambitious Folding@Home project, says Sony....

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  • PlayStation3 surpass PCs in Folding@Home computations - News

    PlayStation3 surpass PCs in Folding@Home computations. ps3 foldingathome stats. The recent release of the Folding@Home plug-in for PlayStation 3 game consoles has gotten off to a very successful start. The recent release of the Folding@Home plug-in for PlayStation 3 game consoles has gotten off to a very successful start. According to Folding@Home, the PlayStation 3’s are computing work units at 346 trillion floating point operations a second which is more than 200 trillion more than Windows machines, despite the fact that there is a greater than a ten to 1 ratio of Windows computers to PlayStation 3 consoles working on the project. The Folding@Home plug-in was released today along with the new firmware version 1.60....

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  • PS3 Folding@Home hits nearly 40,000 users in three days - News

    PS3 Folding@Home hits nearly 40,000 users in three days. 40000 folding ps3. Almost 40,000 PS3 owners have connected to Stanford University's Folding@Home project, boosted by the launch of the console in Europe and other areas of the globe.. Foster City (CA) - Almost 40,000 PS3 owners have connected to Stanford University’s Folding@Home project, boosted by the launch of the console in Europe and other areas of the globe. Folding@Home is a global initiative headed by Stanford’s medical researchers to find out more information about diseases like Parkinsn’s, Alzheimer’s, and cancer. PS3 users can access Folding@Home from the console’s menu, which lets researchers tap into the processing power when the console is idle....

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  • Playstation 3 Folding@Home client updated for PSP support - News

    Playstation 3 Folding@Home client updated for PSP support. Foster City (CA) - Sony and Stanford have updated the Playstation 3’s Folding@Home client, adding among other things connectivity with the PSP. The new client for PS3’s Folding@Home program, which lets Stanford University borrow the console’s computing p. Foster City (CA) - Sony and Stanford have updated the Playstation 3’s Folding@Home client, adding among other things connectivity with the PSP. According to Sony, more than 250,000 PS3 systems are signed up for the Folding@Home program, amounting to an aggregate of 400 teraflops of computing power....

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  • Folding Home gets Guiness World Record thanks to PS3 - News

    Folding Home gets Guiness World Record thanks to PS3. Guiness World Records has officially claimed Folding@Home as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world.. Tokyo (Japan) - Guiness World Records has officially claimed Folding@Home as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world. Folding@Home is a scientific research project kickstarted by Stanford University to help study diseases using highly ambitious computer models. Sony says that over 670,000 PS3 consoles have registered to join the Folding@Home network, bringing the total amount of computing power to the program at over one petaflop (one million gigaflops)....

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