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PS3 and Alzheimers

ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie."London, UK
[URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6594907.stm"]linky[/URL]

I know these @home things arent anything new, but its good to see a company like sony signing up to one. Peak speeds of 700 teraflops, and an average speed of 400!

What are all the @home projects, does anyone know? There's this one, seti, and a climate change one that I know of off hand

Comments

  • Space GhostSpace Ghost Elite Ranger
    You need Alzheimer's to forget how much you paid for that freakin' thing. ;)

    But, I guess it's good that it's doing something productive. My grandmother had Alzheimer's Disease and let me tell you, it wasn't a pleasant experience. :(
  • SpiritOneSpiritOne Magneto ABQ NM
    The one I do is called [url=http://folding.stanford.edu/]Folding@home[/url]. Its not a one chance in a million as the seti project. Folding@Home instead is folding and misfolding protein strands in a better effort to understand diseases like Cancer, Alzheimer's things like that.

    I am on the Maximum PC team.
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    so thats the one in the link then Spirit? ;)
  • SpiritOneSpiritOne Magneto ABQ NM
    LMAO, I knew I forgot to read something before I posted.... (where is the smiley for dumbass).
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    S'ok, we know you're special :p
  • PSI-KILLERPSI-KILLER Needs help
    It is a cool piece of software. It takes about 4 1/2 hours per work unit. Supposedly IBM/Sony are releasing an update which will make it process even faster soon. It is rumored it eats about 250 watts when doing it though. I havent tested it with a meter myself. Light bill did go up a tad. Folding is probably better focus then Seti but thats an opinion.
  • C_MonC_Mon A Genuine Sucker
    It is cool that sony has actually given people the choise to do this and pritty cool that it's faster than a computer CPU.
    But I read somewhere (can't remember the link) that a graphics card is actually the fastest at calculating these things. Too bad it's only supported for some ATI cards.
  • PSI-KILLERPSI-KILLER Needs help
    The drivers have not been optimised yet. Currently ATI latest card can't beat Nvidas 8800GTX.

    55 Tflops for GPU's

    [url]http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats[/url]

    Client statistics by OS
  • Team 33 FTW!
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