Gab on 08 September 2009
| ChichiriMuyo said: The big thing is that the PS3 is severely outdone by folding@home run on a video card in terms of work output per unit and is used by perhaps one half of one percent of PS3 owners. Essentially it's a small contributor to a project that has not provided any major advancements yet. |
When Folding@home was first introduced on the PS3 (or was it there from the beginning, I can't remeber?), it was a huge contributer to the calculations in the project, compared to the PC CPUs that had run it before. However a few things have happened; firstly not to many people use it on their playstations any more, and secondly as ChichiriMuyo said, PC video cards are now far, far more efficient in doing theses types of calculations. The PS3s strengths is in the numbers though, as not to many people run folding@home on their video cards, the PS3 still has the ability to make huge contributions due to its installbase of many millions. Check the folding@home webpage for more information on the project.
