Whatever else you feel about the PS3, you've got to admit that Folding@home, which uses the PS3's power (along with PC users) to fight disease, is awesome. Heck, for a while there, watching proteins be folded was the best game on the system. Now, the network is being recognized by the wonderful people of Guinness as the "World's Most Powerful Distributed Computing Network."
The record was technically set on September 16 when Folding@home surpassed one petaflop. Fun fact: A petaflop is used to describe both computing power and the awfulness of films in which Peta Wilson has appeared. For you film historians out there, League of Extraordinary Gentlmen set a new bar at seven petaflops. Where's that award, Guinness?
Reader Comments (73)
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 12:10PM (Unverified) said
Lol my pHD says otherwise dumbasses..
Keep crying....
And I'm happily healthy and I take care of my body. I KNOW for a fact that I won't be getting AIDs retard and unless you got AIDs because someone lied to you I don't feel bad for you at all.
Where did I say this has anything to do with console wars. Even if it were offered on the 360 I still wouldn't use it.
Its NOT win/win situation at all. Especially if the "win" isn't even possible.
LMAO..comparing AIDS to Polio...thats just classic shit right there.
And yes wishing someone to catch a disease is just so classy of you noshino....your sony arrogance and attitude is glowing!
Seriously noshino do you think I care? All your idiotic comments do is just show how pathetic you are. You waste how much time trying to convince yourself that you're better than me because some proteins?
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Keep crying....
And I'm happily healthy and I take care of my body. I KNOW for a fact that I won't be getting AIDs retard and unless you got AIDs because someone lied to you I don't feel bad for you at all.
Where did I say this has anything to do with console wars. Even if it were offered on the 360 I still wouldn't use it.
Its NOT win/win situation at all. Especially if the "win" isn't even possible.
LMAO..comparing AIDS to Polio...thats just classic shit right there.
And yes wishing someone to catch a disease is just so classy of you noshino....your sony arrogance and attitude is glowing!
Seriously noshino do you think I care? All your idiotic comments do is just show how pathetic you are. You waste how much time trying to convince yourself that you're better than me because some proteins?
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 12:31PM Negativecool said
...ugh. I'm actually dumber for having read that. Just do everyone a favor and swallow a bullet already CAX.
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Posted: Nov 1st 2007 12:55PM (Unverified) said
"pHD"? are you serious? how does a person that gives this kind of comment...
"Wait I didn't read all that bullshit...
Again tell me what diseases this stupid program has cured.
Bottom line is that its a waste of money trying to cure AIDs. There is NO cure for the disease.
Researching meds to help people live with the disease is fine.
Although in all honesty diseases are definitely part of the environment's attempt to weed out the human population.
Survival of the fittest, etc..."
is allowed on this world to have a "pHD"?
oh, and because you are healthy right now, it doesn't mean you'll me healthy all the time, besides, there are certain sicknesses that just appear out of nowhere, even to healthy people.
Yes, it IS a win/win situation, sadly, you don't seem to understand due to certain restrain of your brain's capabilities.
ah, I said I wanted that so you would realize what all of those people, that were just as healthy as you claim you are and yet still get sick, feel like, so you would finally realize that this is their hope, and when people like you make this idiotic comments, then it really makes me feel sad that you are even to be considered human.
might it be a sony, microsoft, or nintendo, I don't care really, point is IT IS BEING DONE.
seriously, when will you stop your Sony hatred, hell...
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"Wait I didn't read all that bullshit...
Again tell me what diseases this stupid program has cured.
Bottom line is that its a waste of money trying to cure AIDs. There is NO cure for the disease.
Researching meds to help people live with the disease is fine.
Although in all honesty diseases are definitely part of the environment's attempt to weed out the human population.
Survival of the fittest, etc..."
is allowed on this world to have a "pHD"?
oh, and because you are healthy right now, it doesn't mean you'll me healthy all the time, besides, there are certain sicknesses that just appear out of nowhere, even to healthy people.
Yes, it IS a win/win situation, sadly, you don't seem to understand due to certain restrain of your brain's capabilities.
ah, I said I wanted that so you would realize what all of those people, that were just as healthy as you claim you are and yet still get sick, feel like, so you would finally realize that this is their hope, and when people like you make this idiotic comments, then it really makes me feel sad that you are even to be considered human.
might it be a sony, microsoft, or nintendo, I don't care really, point is IT IS BEING DONE.
seriously, when will you stop your Sony hatred, hell...
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 1:25PM (Unverified) said
Like you were slaziman?
No I don't think so...see cuz unlike stupid girls and boys I don't go around getting plastered or high each and every night begging random strangers to do me cuz I'm lonely and have no self confidence...Nor do I drink strangers drinks. Nor do I walk home in the middle of the night BY MYSELF without friends or family to guard me.
You get diseases because you're stupid and pathetic.
I know that won't happen to me cuz I'm just not that stupid.
And for someone who doesn't "care" noshino why are you responding then?
Clearly you do care that sony is doing it. I don't because its stupid and not accomplishing a damn thing. Nor will it EVER accomplish anything of substance.
Even if MS or Nintendo were doing this I'd still say it was dumb.
But then again Nintendo and MS weren't stupid enough to go for this crap....
Yes I hate sony and this is just another example of why. People like you who represent sony and its core. Your holier than thou attitude and the fact that you think that you somehow more "human" than me because I happen to feel a different way than you do about AIDs or this stupid FoH shit.
Proteins....YEA!
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No I don't think so...see cuz unlike stupid girls and boys I don't go around getting plastered or high each and every night begging random strangers to do me cuz I'm lonely and have no self confidence...Nor do I drink strangers drinks. Nor do I walk home in the middle of the night BY MYSELF without friends or family to guard me.
You get diseases because you're stupid and pathetic.
I know that won't happen to me cuz I'm just not that stupid.
And for someone who doesn't "care" noshino why are you responding then?
Clearly you do care that sony is doing it. I don't because its stupid and not accomplishing a damn thing. Nor will it EVER accomplish anything of substance.
Even if MS or Nintendo were doing this I'd still say it was dumb.
But then again Nintendo and MS weren't stupid enough to go for this crap....
Yes I hate sony and this is just another example of why. People like you who represent sony and its core. Your holier than thou attitude and the fact that you think that you somehow more "human" than me because I happen to feel a different way than you do about AIDs or this stupid FoH shit.
Proteins....YEA!
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 2:10PM (Unverified) said
The "s" in AIDS stands for syndrome. It couldn't be lower case since it's not making the work plural and its part of the acronym.
One would think that someone with a PHD would know this.
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One would think that someone with a PHD would know this.
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 3:01PM cc123 said
He doesn't have a Phd, hes a lying piece of shit. Allow me to prove it.
A few months back when this crazy asshole was still posting under his JonnyBoy2U name he said he was going to medical school and I thought to myself dear god what would happen if this thing ever became a doctor.
So here is the quote:
JonnyBoy2U: "I"m 21 and I about to go to Med School. The last thing I want to do is work with games or computers."
and the linky:
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/20/xbox-division-has-1-9-billion-loss-blame-red-rings/2#comments
about halfway down the page.
So JonnyBoy2U/CaptainAmericaX did you get a Phd in 3 months or should we add "pathological liar" to your growing list of wonderful attributes?
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A few months back when this crazy asshole was still posting under his JonnyBoy2U name he said he was going to medical school and I thought to myself dear god what would happen if this thing ever became a doctor.
So here is the quote:
JonnyBoy2U: "I"m 21 and I about to go to Med School. The last thing I want to do is work with games or computers."
and the linky:
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/20/xbox-division-has-1-9-billion-loss-blame-red-rings/2#comments
about halfway down the page.
So JonnyBoy2U/CaptainAmericaX did you get a Phd in 3 months or should we add "pathological liar" to your growing list of wonderful attributes?
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 4:29PM (Unverified) said
Obviously CAX is just another 13 year old trying to act older on the internet. It's ok CAX, We've all if not most of us have done it to and one point in our lives. But could you be a little more convincing you stupid troll fuck? Honestly, a "pHD"? And you spell like someone who their fucking hands burned off and your grammar is obviously a sign of you having, a "pHD". Go die. We would like to have more pxygen in the world.
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Posted: Nov 1st 2007 5:09PM borland502 said
I didn't think it possible...someone topped Fernando on the all time troll list. I tip my hat to you CAX. You managed to get most everyone, regardless of platform, to hate you.
But a PhD buddy? There are plenty of assholes with doctorates, but even folks that invested in a Nigerian ex-patriot are looking at that skeptically. Still, I bet you're feeling good with all the responses you garnered.
So ride the thrill of being reviled. You'll be able to keep at it for a long, long time due to advances made today.
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But a PhD buddy? There are plenty of assholes with doctorates, but even folks that invested in a Nigerian ex-patriot are looking at that skeptically. Still, I bet you're feeling good with all the responses you garnered.
So ride the thrill of being reviled. You'll be able to keep at it for a long, long time due to advances made today.
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 6:31PM Korova Pamplona said
Captn
Diseases do not have moral causes. You have to stop using the bible for medical purposes. It will get you and your loved ones killed.
Its good that you try to be healthy, but you cant avoid many disease causes that dont depend on you. You may still get sick for no fault of yours and then you will be glad F@H gave your doctors more tools to make you healthy again, so you can continue trolling mindlessly on the internet.
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Diseases do not have moral causes. You have to stop using the bible for medical purposes. It will get you and your loved ones killed.
Its good that you try to be healthy, but you cant avoid many disease causes that dont depend on you. You may still get sick for no fault of yours and then you will be glad F@H gave your doctors more tools to make you healthy again, so you can continue trolling mindlessly on the internet.
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 10:30AM (Unverified) said
"Hey I don't think anyone will be complaining about the PS3 after it cures AIDS, cancer, and colonizes a planet for us all.
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 10:48AM (Unverified) said
i always set the ps3 to f@h when i'm not gaming. it doesn't hurt to share your resources for a good cause.
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 11:23AM Quan said
Funny thing is as much as they are trying to show off the power of the Cell, I've seen GPGPU performed on 7900GT (about what the RSX is) and it'd easily outperform the Cell under the right tasks (like folding @ Home).
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 11:55AM borland502 said
Oh, most certainly they would. But I think only a limited number of cards are compatible right? Still, the more the merrier.
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Posted: Nov 1st 2007 12:05PM Quan said
In response to the comment above:
You can write GPGPU software on any modern GPU, it's just about the difficulty and available tools. I've seen Particle Physics engines be written on a 7900GT, it took a fair amount of effort because it was written in a high level language designed to take advantage of any card which supported OpenGL. Where as wit the help of nvidia and sony, they should be able to program a very fast program using low level features of the card.
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You can write GPGPU software on any modern GPU, it's just about the difficulty and available tools. I've seen Particle Physics engines be written on a 7900GT, it took a fair amount of effort because it was written in a high level language designed to take advantage of any card which supported OpenGL. Where as wit the help of nvidia and sony, they should be able to program a very fast program using low level features of the card.
Posted: Nov 1st 2007 11:29AM (Unverified) said
it still dont fold me laundry!
Posted: Nov 2nd 2007 5:26AM anantha92 said
Cax, you are truly the biggest idiot i have ever seen on the internet.
As cc123 mentioned i do remember an idiot a while back who had said he was going into mediacal school. This was a few months back, no one beleived you as you posted like a douche bag 12 year old kid who got his favrioute porn site banned by his parents. Tell me are you an amazing genius and got a phd in just over a few months? When its supposed to be a 4 year course(i apologize if that is wrong)? You certainly DO NOT post like one.
Secondly you said you didn't want anything to do with games or computers? Why are you reading the comments on a gaming site then douche bag?
Thirdly, you should get a terminal disease and see how it feels like. When you eventually get AIDS i want some douche bag with the same amount of brain cells as you to tell you AIDS is incurable. We are the fucking human race and we should do whatever it takes to help the people of our world from dying. Even if there are disagreements and wars, we still are one.
Last thing, which university did they teach you that AIDS is incurable, because i want to go and study there too. Wow a forward moving complex with achivements being made everyday saying that AIDS is incurable.
Go back to primary school.
As cc123 mentioned i do remember an idiot a while back who had said he was going into mediacal school. This was a few months back, no one beleived you as you posted like a douche bag 12 year old kid who got his favrioute porn site banned by his parents. Tell me are you an amazing genius and got a phd in just over a few months? When its supposed to be a 4 year course(i apologize if that is wrong)? You certainly DO NOT post like one.
Secondly you said you didn't want anything to do with games or computers? Why are you reading the comments on a gaming site then douche bag?
Thirdly, you should get a terminal disease and see how it feels like. When you eventually get AIDS i want some douche bag with the same amount of brain cells as you to tell you AIDS is incurable. We are the fucking human race and we should do whatever it takes to help the people of our world from dying. Even if there are disagreements and wars, we still are one.
Last thing, which university did they teach you that AIDS is incurable, because i want to go and study there too. Wow a forward moving complex with achivements being made everyday saying that AIDS is incurable.
Go back to primary school.
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