The network of distributed computing Folding @ home hit the Guinness Book of Records
The Folding @ home project hit the Guinness Book of Records as the most powerful network of distributed computing in the world.
The distributed computing project for computer simulation of the folding of protein molecules Folding @ home, launched by scientists from Stanford University a little more than seven years ago, thanks to recent support in the form of Sony PlayStation, reached a capacity last month exceeding 1 petaflops or 10 15 floating-point operations per second.
It is the PlayStation 3 consoles that helped achieve such colossal power. The fact is that the multi-core Cell processors used in the PS3 provide a performance of 2.18 teraflops, or 2.18 * 10 12 floating point operations per second, and more than 600 thousand owners are registered at Folding @ home at the moment PS3 consoles.
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Well, Folding @ home in the Guinness Book of Records is a good advertisement for Sony!
The distributed computing project for computer simulation of the folding of protein molecules Folding @ home, launched by scientists from Stanford University a little more than seven years ago, thanks to recent support in the form of Sony PlayStation, reached a capacity last month exceeding 1 petaflops or 10 15 floating-point operations per second.
It is the PlayStation 3 consoles that helped achieve such colossal power. The fact is that the multi-core Cell processors used in the PS3 provide a performance of 2.18 teraflops, or 2.18 * 10 12 floating point operations per second, and more than 600 thousand owners are registered at Folding @ home at the moment PS3 consoles.
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Well, Folding @ home in the Guinness Book of Records is a good advertisement for Sony!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/15687/
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