Stanford Universitets Folding@home skal være rigtig glade for det ekstra spark bagi Sonys PlayStation 3 har givet projektet. Man har nu rundet over 1 mio. PlayStation 3 brugere / konsoller som deltager i Folding@home. Det er faktisk så mange, at de står for næsten 75 % af den samlede processorkraft i dag. Folding@home så dagens lys tilbage i oktober måned 2000. Ganske imponerende.

Tokyo, February 5, 2008 – Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today announced that since PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3®) took part in Stanford University’s Folding@home™ project on March 22, 2007, the total number of registered users has reached over one million users. This equates to roughly 3,000 PS3 users registering for Folding@home per day or 2 new registered users every minute worldwide.

Prior to the inclusion of PS3 in March 2007, the Folding@home project leveraged the distributed computing power of personal computers from around the world. Now a network of roughly 10,000 PS3s can accomplish the same amount of work as a network of 100,000 PCs, and have the ability to perform research simulations in weeks rather than years. In fact, it took just six months after PS3 joining Folding@home for the project to surpass a petaflops (*1), a computing milestone that had never been reached before by a distributed computing network. In September 16, 2007, Folding@home was recognized by Guinness World Records™ as the world’s most powerful distributed computing network. Currently PS3 users make up approximately 74 percent of the total teraflop computing power of the Folding@home project.

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