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The Folding@Home project existed long before the PS3 was released, chugging along with volunteers donating the idle cycles of their PC’s servers, and so on. Once the PS3 version was released, its multiprocessor focus caused it to race ahead in productivity, quickly taking the crown as the version with the most teraflops out of the entire project.
Folding@Home Petaflop Barrier Crossed…Twice!
Submitted by Paul Munn on September 29, 2007 – 6:00 amNo Comment
The Folding@Home project existed long before the PS3 was released, chugging along with volunteers donating the idle cycles of their PC’s servers, and so on. Once the PS3 version was released, its multiprocessor focus caused it to race ahead in productivity, quickly taking the crown as the version with the most teraflops out of the entire project.
Last week the project hit the 1000 teraflop mark, known as a petaflop. So what, really, is a petaflop? It’s one quadrillion floating point operations per second, which frankly is pretty meaningless. What does that mean in real-life terms? Noam Rimon, the Senior Development Manager of SCEA R&D wrote:
If you
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