<![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Cherrybomb, Folding@home has had a little study in HIV and Cancer too. So don't bash them because they are trying to make real life differences in the world that would take every human on the planet (working together with a calculus level of mathematics competency) thousands of years to maybe solve 1 protein fold (assuming none of those billions of people ever made a mistake... yeah right).
MJDeviant, look up "nanomachines" and "nanotechnology". Maybe you'll find a little more info on how that could benefit the folding/misfolding of proteins. But before we make a machine small enough to do that work, and actually can do that work, we kind of need to KNOW how all the proteins (or all the proteins in question) fold and/or misfold.
EVERYBODY- PS3 runs folding@home safely at 200 watts, much lower than the 360 probably runs anything, look at that massive power supply it has.
Topgeargorilla- PC's HAVE been running Folding@home since 2000. currently there is around 2 million computers running folding@home. ALL 2 million computers (which run folding@home constantly, unlike the ps3 version which you have to let it autoexec. or manually load it up) are contributing less than HALF of the total power of the system. and then you have the 100,000 ps3's. Those 100,000 ps3's sure are owning like things have never been owned before. Do the math yourself, if a ps3 does about 1 work unit a day, maybe 2, and if work units are 8 hours to complete for ps3, which they are, ps3 is running folding@home nowhere near as much as the 2 million PC's are. My pc that I am using right now has completed 9 work units, it hasn't closed folding in over 2 weeks. my ps3, which I turn folding@home on before bedtime and work (and I sometimes even forget to turn on folding...) has completed 12 work units, and in under an hour it will be at 13. PC's processors run at about 10Gigaflops seems to be for the high priced processors (which probably cost more than a ps3 itself). PS3 is currently rated by wikipedia as running at somewhere around 2.23 TERAFLOPs. 1 1Teraflops=1024Gigaflops. Do the math yourself, I believe you would be amazed at the ps3's potential, especially when you consider that not even folding@home is utilizing all of it's processing capabilities. I must say I share a little hatred for all three video game systems companies for different reasons, but I cannot ignore the fact that ps3 is simply making unheard of progress. Whether you love the PS3 or you hate the PS3, I don't care. But I will put boatloads of money that despite this slow, painful start Sony had to deal with. you want my own personal belief why I believe PS3 will win (again, for the 3rd time in a row) here it is.
FINAL FANTASY. Not 1 game console has ever been the less popular one, just so long as it had Squaresoft's (or now, Square-Enix's) support from the Final Fantasy SERIES.I will go generation to generation, listing the most popular game console, and what Final Fantasy's they had.

NES-Final Fantasy 1,2,and 3. NES was the first major success of a video game console.

SNES-Final Fantasy 4,5, and 6. SNES outdid Sega Genesis, remember?

PS1-Final Fantasy 7,8, and 9. Remember N64? Remember how everybody needed one around christmas when it came out? how the heck did sony, their first console with worse in-game graphics beat the n64 and Sega Saturn? It was going against 2 seasoned pros, and it turned out at the time to be the best selling video game console ever until...

PS2-Final Fantasy 10,11, and 12. PS2 is the current best selling game console. Ever.

PS3-we'll see, but Final Fantasy 13 is already coming out for it and it looks hands down like the best looking game I have ever seen. and you bet if they have a numbered FF on the ps3, it will have 3 numbered FF's for it. 3 Final Fantasy's per generation, and the system that recieves those 3 games has a habit of coming out as a major success. Consider that for all you haters out there who get pissed off that the ps3 is helping the world, and who actually believe the xbox360 could fold anywhere near as well as ps3. Also the HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray war is over according to one independant development studio. Blu-ray came later, much more expensive, with much better specs, and it is now on average outselling HD-DVD's by 3 to 1. Good job 360 with the optional HD DVD drive. Also movie industry's are moving to blu-ray to help speed up the process, and stop putting out on HD-DVD's. And if you believe that DVD's are not going to be dethroned anytime soon, it's time for a reality check. This is next generation. amazon.com's top 10 movies had Casino Royal as number 8 most popular... In Blu-ray, NOT HD-DVD. anyway, this post went a little further than I had planned, so I'll stop it here. I doubt most of you kept up with me to this point

XIndalecioX

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> cherrybomb: Protein Folding has a lot more to do with just Alzheimers, that is one of several diseases that they are researching. Also, with the extension of human longevity due to advances in medicine and science, Alzheimers is becoming much, much more of a serious issue, as people are increasingly living into their 80s, 90s, and even 100s.

Chebwa: Microsoft has already stated that they won't be doing folding@home with the 360. I think it had something to do with power consumption and inefficiency.

I don't think there has even been any mention of using the Wii for folding, and since it's hardware isn't anything spectacular, I don't know how much of a workload it would contribute anyway.

The PS3 is so good at folding because the Cell Processor was designed, at least in part, to be used for scientific calculations in supercomputers. The version used in the PS3 is a less advanced version, but is still extremely good at these scientific calculations.


I've heard that the electricity consumption isn't nearly as large as some people would have you believe, and it is, as far as I know, tax deductable.


Is there a Kotaku folding team, I wonder?

Suzaku

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Having stanford work on Alzheimers and "other diseases" seems rather pathetic IMO as we eventually will have slight memory loss when we become old farts anyhow. Rather than wasting time on useless studies, how about they put forth the effort in utilizing the power for something significant like Cancer or AIDS studies rather. Idiots. And yes I agree, once the killer apps kick in, the folding will probably become "terrafloppy" (sorry, had to use it).

cherrybomb

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @Bunnyspatial:

That wasn't an actual hit to Kotaku, I'm guessing, that was making fun of PS3 fans who say Kotaku is anti-ps3... Really, people don't realize that Kotaku is made by a number of people who have various opinions, and maybe one or two of them honestly despises Sony and gets special pleasure from posting bad sony news, but that doesn't meant that represents the whole of Kotaku. So, in a way, I agree with him / (her?) but at the same time... This is the best place for game news, even if I have to put up with Sony hate now and again and again.

bobtheduck

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @Bunnyspatial:

i agree that he was definetly a little easily offended by your story.

but i have NUMEROUS times read sony-bashing articles, or articles that were written in a way that gave the xbox fanboys a reason to bash the ps3 (ps3 selling worse that n64 on amazon right now! type stories)

so.. i mean, maybe this story wasnt REALLY that anti-sony, but you CANNOT honestly look me in the eyes and say that kotaku doesnt sometimes put an anti-sony spin on things.

because i've been reading here a long time (and i love it here, but sometimes i do notice it)

joelface

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> "Think of all the parents of 15 year old kids who have no idea that a portion of their electrical bill is going towards funding Alzheimer's research."


LAWL.

joelface

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @K-OSS: I swear you people are insane. Really. I post a story about the PS3 doing something well, and it's anti-PS3? Why, because I mention that once big name games hit people will be playing them? Seriously, if you think that we are completely against Sony so much that a positive story reads to you like PS3 hate, go away and read something else. Seriously.

Mike Fahey

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Does anyone know why Folding was removed from the Google Tool bar? It was a option when it first came out and I have a copy of the google tool bar with the little DNA folding in it.

xpnet

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> If anyone is interested in claiming Folding@home related electricity usage as a tax writeoff, read the below, which I fould here.

Ok here is the deal.

I did claim Folding@home on my 2003 return, and I did get my return
filed with no problems and made my payment to the IRS.

Here are the details of what I did and the results.

1. I claimed ALL the hardware I purchased that I still had reciepts for on
hardware purchased in 2003. However you can NOT claim the sales tax, as
that is a California tax (for me that is) but I did claim the sales tax on my
California state tax filing.

2. I used H&R TaxCut as my tax prep software. I entered the amount of $$
for hardware purchased AND I entered the amount of $$ for electricity used as a "Out of pocket expense". It is CLEAR that the months that the cluster was "Active" my power useage more than doubled. And these timeframes are proveable by my NetBoot servers activity logs which I printed off for my own records AND by Folding@Home's Stats page that
lists "Active Processors" which I also printed off for my records to
provide correlation IF I ever do get audited/questioned. I also kept each
power bill to provide an additional source of proof. All documents (i.e.
server logs, power bills, purchase reciepts & printed Folding@home Stats
pages) are being kept in a file cabinet. I will probably retain the records for 3 years.

The claim appears on my tax return as:

Stanford University/Vijay Pande Group - Folding@Home

That way it is CLEAR as to what I donated to.

Now for the totals.....

My total donation (hardware + electricity) was $1006.06
This resulted in a savings of $160.97.
My Taxes Due to the IRS WERE $189.97

Due to IRS $189.97
Donation Deduction $160.97
_________________________
Total Due to IRS $29.00

When you do your "e-file" through H&R Block online, they give you an
option to handle your return/payment electronically (and the hardcopy
forms also give the option via electronics deposit/withdrawl) I made my
$29 payment immediately and have recieved my California tax returns
in about 3 weeks.

Sounds like it is worth it to me.

I am now encouraged to donate even MORE to Folding@home.

If anyone has any questions as to what I did you can post in here
or email me at fatchick@adnc.com

And yes I am the same fatchick that started this thread. I just forgot the
password for my old account so I created a new one today so I could
pass this info along.

eric glass

markmarkmarkmark

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> As for what good comes out of this: Google is your friend...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=vs+pande&hl=en&lr=&saf...

TFox2

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @Psudonym:

What makes you feel good in a great way?

bird1988

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @bird1988:

Oh NVM

bird1988

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> ...Where'd my comment go?

bird1988

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> This makes news makes me cry in a good way.

This thread... not so much.

Psudonym

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @JTindahouse: That's a REALLY interesting idea. Folding@Home should talk to an accountant about that.

Have you by any chance estimated how much extra you're paying for electricity?

markmarkmarkmark

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> If you wish for "disease" or think "oh, the final fantasies and metal gear solid games are going to considerably halt the folding@home project" thine shall recieve these thoughts in a universal context.

If you change the article around to where you say "the folding@home project is amazing and has multitudes of appraisal" then the project will literally take off. You can create an abundance with your mind right? Correct, you do!

bird1988

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Just to note I fold on a computer I made with spare parts that I got cheap from newegg. I'm contributing to a "good cause" and not wearing down something that isn't so easily replaceble.

Btw the folding computer only cost $400 and is on 24/7, still running cool, and I'm not sweating the wear and tear these PS3's are unecessarily getting. I like the idea of folding, I really do, but I didn't buy a PLAYSTATION3 to be part of some distributed processing program to help fight AIDS and whatnot, FoldStation this is not.

Another thought, seeing as your donating electricity/bandwidth/personal investment of money to something such as this, would it constitute as a tax right off? Kind of like when people give to charity?

JTindahouse

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @cerberus_oz: Yeah, but Wii has sold like 400x more consoles, so it about evens out.... jks.

I hope this never comes to 360, for the sole reason that the 360 wouldn't be able to compete with the cell in terms of doing this kind of work. All we would hear is people crying "ha, lolz@ teh shitbox three6ty!" from all the rabid sony fans!

Scazza

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> "Yes, there will be profits made, and you know what? They're DESERVED."'

Yeah 300% markups on AIDS drugs to Africa is really deserved.

The Commissar

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @Captain_Duck: People have already seen their electric bills.

RedRedSuit

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> I'm glad the PS3 is being this useful, Right now, it seems like it's the only good reason to by a PS3 at the current price. It was a good plan folding on a ps3.

Trov

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Whats going to kill folding@home is when people see theyre electric bills. I once read an article that said that running your PS3 constantly for a year will cost you $250 extra in power costs.

Captain_Duck

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Good news. Who says gamers aren't doing anything productive with their time...well actually I do.

Barbara

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Unique sez:
This project isn't about cures. It's about money free research going to pharmecuticle(sic) companies, so they get higher profits and their shares go up.

@Unique: The project is being conducted by a university's chemical department, under the oversight of a tenured professor. Results are not proprietary secrets held under lock and key by corporations, but are published publicly in medical journals.

Rolling your eyes at the profit motive shows both poor logic and an over-simplistic worldview on your part.

If you disagree, please explain the process from this research to a cure to your wife's Alzheimer's.

The mortar and pestle had to be developed before the world invented bread. One discovery leads to more. One invention leads to more. Come on man. Use your brain.

Remember, Sony is getting paid for having this feature on the system, because it is a hell of a lot cheaper then owning 250,000 ps3's plus the electricity to power them.

Incredible leap of logic. Show us a source that shows Sony is getting paid. Who is paying Sony - Stanford's chemical department?

It's nice that people are working on cures for things in this world. It sucks that the only reason these cures exist would be for profit.

@Unique:
Better move to North Korea then. No pesky capitalism, no free market, no profit incentive.

Thomas Edison was a total dick - he just wanted to get rich, inventing that goofy lightbulb. Greedy jerk.

markmarkmarkmark

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> 1 / 93 / 54733 / 2ch@PS3

Nice to see 2chan doing the fold, if only 4chan could do the same, hell we'd have cures for every disease by now. At least SOMETHING constructive would come from that.

In fact, that gives me an idea. Hosting companies that host sites like 4chan, IGN, Gawker etc, could set up folding programs on their computers to run in the background, or on servers that haven't gotten rented out yet, in return, that company pays the host for a certain amount of units processed. And organizations like Standford University could set aside a portion of their grants and government funds to give to the hosting companies. This would hopefully be passed down to the clients of the hosting companies (Gawker, IGN, etc) with lower server rental fees. Of course you could argue that if they're going to pay someone to do the processing for them, why not just do it themselves? Well, I would figure that in the end the researchers would make out on top by not giving too much money to the server hosts, and would also get the benefit of not having to set aside their own equipment to run the software, or pay the electic bills on top of that.

Or something like that.

JTindahouse

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> protien folding is actually very important in developing new medicines. and its not like your helping out merck or something, its a university- still out to make a profit, but is for the most part, in the pursuit of education. and the people commenting that this is "helping rich people get their medicines" are, well, retarded. sure, all new treatments first go to the rich, and it would be nice if that changed, but eventually, more and more people get it. I'm sure stuff like tylenol was once very expensive. And if you own a ps3 (or 360, or Wii... or a computer that can play modern games), you are those rich people. if this was someone in africa who barely had enough money to pay for their food, nobody would ask them to use their electricity to help with protien folding.

=O

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> for someone that (i'm guessing) enjoys yams, that's a bit of a downer-statement. then again, you could be just an enjoyer of sardonic comments.

otherwise, i hope people don't start playing with their PS3s and bum out the scientists =/

if i were a research lead i would look at all the short-term goals that our team had and start looking at video game market trends, to try to time out projects. at least then we might have some reliable data on how much the gaming community gets jerked around with release dates.

noneother

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> I love how the Xbots are even jealous of folding. I have to stop reading these boards.

Boxelder

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @Schabralk:

I say we all just accept our fate and burn the planet up.

Yamster

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Some stats : ( not the most recent )

PS3 Team Rank / Overall rank / Team Number / Name
=================================================
1 / 93 / 54733 / 2ch@PS3
2 / 157 / 54376 / PS3Forums.com
3 / 178 / 55265 / PlayStation.com Forums Team
4 / 333 / 51355 / PLAYSTATION 3
5 / 410 / 55260 / IGN-PS3
6 / 427 / 55077 / mixi@PS3.JP
7 / 486 / 57793 / Official-ish PS3Fanboy Folding Team
8 / 594 / 54886 / PS3 FAN
9 / 696 / 54751 / Sony Playstation 3 G.A.P.
10 / 1059 / 57266 / Official German Playstation Community Team

DarkSideDave

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> It is amazing how some people are trying to turn a good thing into a flame war. Clearly they aren't to blame though it has become quite the norm to gain attention by making harsh misinformed comments.
The only thing I hope is that I see results from all this research in my lifetime.

Violater

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @Youlikeyams: Hm I take the cables out after playing. So no energy/electracy loss. YOU ALL SHOULD! energy=higher bill/ invoice=heat=ozone hole gets bigger=pain to the world/people

Schabrak

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Yes the PS3 isn't capable of running the full suite but it does do very well in its task. As for the math wiz kid example, that why we have scientist and lawyers. Each doing what that person is good at and earning the big bucks doing it. :)

The PS3 folding@home sure made me run my pc to do this also. Before, I didn't pay too much attention to this distributed computing thing. I'm actually in 5th place in team Kotaku :) I'm still amazed at the fact the every time I come home, my PS3 hasn't locked up running this program for hours upon hours. I think my 360 would have eaten the dust if I ran it that much every day. It's just nice to be able to contribute to a good cause while patiently waiting for the new games to come out.

SCTrojans83

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @Schabralk:

As does the 360, which has special red LEDs designed to tell you when the console is broken, as well as giving you a carpet-scorching power supply. And need I mention the third-party MEGAHUGE FAN peripherals?

Yamster

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> I think that many of you will cry when you see, that your PS3 gets an error/crash after 2 years, when you have no warranty anymore.
Do you really think the PS3 is powered by pure love. The energy used to unfold proteins destroys our blue planet. + all the heat. tztz

Schabrak

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> What about PCs?! I'm running Folding@home on a PC (since I don't own a PS3). Are they also counted and where can I see that map?

Spiderbait

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> "Bees?!!!!"
"No, I said beads"
"Beads!!??"

I miss you Arrested Development. And yes, the bees must live!

MJDeviant

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Folding@home is basically what my ps3 does, I turn it on and keep it on overnight.

It'll be interesting to see whether this proves helpful. Maybe they'll move on to solving why all the bees are dying. Save the bees!

Islandkiwi

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @MJDeviant:

Protein folding is basically how proteins form the molecules in the human body out of the amino acids we carry.

Incorrect folding of a protein (ie: cells are not created properly and hence are damaging) can lead to some forms of cancer, Alzheimer's, and mad cow disease. So it's worth studying how exactly the proteins misfold to cause this in these folding simulations so we can work on cures.

Yamster

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @Unique,

your attitude is positively *Disgusting*. The work that is done to find cures for these diseases is *hard* and *expensive*. You need highly educated researchers, obscenely expensive custom equipment, sterile labs, production capability, etc. in order to find a cure for *any* single disease.

Do you think these researches live free? That they don't have to buy the equipment and materials they need? That they don't have families to feed? Cars to pay for? Mortgages to pay for? Student loans to pay back?

Yes, there will be profits made, and you know what? They're DESERVED. These are highly skilled and educated people devoting their lives to solving obscenely complex problems that would make you and I shit ourselves just to *see*. Moreover, you're flat out WRONG that "the poor will never see these cures". Pharmaceutical companies donate LOADS of product every single year to those who can't afford it, as do private charities, hospitals, and many times even doctors themselves. Then who pays obscene prices? Oh yes, the RICH do, and they do it happily and willingly, balancing on their backs the costs of drugs handed for free to the poor. Yeah, those horrible rich people, we should just execute *all* of them and seize their wealth!

You're fucking disgusting, and not very much disgusts me.

jasongw

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Also, if Johnny Scientist thinks folding helps find a cure then don't slow down to explain it to this idiot.

MJDeviant

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @DarkSideDave:

Now that would be a good idea.

Hurrah for at least 6 active SPUs. :D

Yamster

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @PaulMorel: Agreed.

Has there been any sort of rough calculation towards how many additional kilowatts one can expect to consume during 1 year of participation in this program?

This Folding@home thing is essentially indirect charity. Its popularity is an interesting phenomenon that should be noted and replicated elsewhere. It's tough to get people to open up their wallets, but you get past a massive hurdle if that direct link between "helping a cause" and "direct cash transaction" can be removed.

Think of all the parents of 15 year old kids who have no idea that a portion of their electrical bill is going towards funding Alzheimer's research.

markmarkmarkmark

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @PaulMorel: It is working and not on standby. So what do you think it is? :D
It must be nice to pay 600 for a console + 150-180 each year, by helping rich people get their medicine.

Schabrak

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> I can't find anything as to how this is helping. I'm not knocking it at all, but I browsed through the stanford folding@home site and didn't really see what it means to know how a protein folds. I mean besides informational purposes of just knowing, what is it solving? Are there things that can fold or unfold certain proteins? Do they think they can make something to do that? I'm @ work so I couldn't really read every page of the site, but I couldn't find anything stating why they're doing this. I guess I don't know what this is solving for. Results-wise I mean. I know they have to understand what they are dealing with, I get that, I just don't know. Something seems missing, like physical lab tests or something. Sorry if I sound stupid, which I just may be, but I'm just confused.

MJDeviant

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> undoubtedly at Game Level.

It's worth noting that PS3 isn't--and isn't capable of--running the full suite of Folding workloads, and unlike PC's, which are measured against 3 different sets of Metrics, PS3 is measured only against one, at which it does extremely well. It's tantamount to taking a kid who's a math whiz but sucks at writing and languages, testing him solely on Math and then saying "Look, he's a genius!"

That said, this is really a good thing they're doing here, and I commend Sony for putting this kind of software on the PS3. Microsoft most certainly should do the same for 360, which due to sheer numbers *alone* would probably outpace PS3's output quickly.

It'd be great if Nintendo did this for Wii also, for though the output would certainly be less than 360 or PS3, that's not the point--every little bit extra helps, and there are rapidly approaching 7 million Wii's in homes across the world.

jasongw

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> cerberus_oz: "Id be supprised if the combined power of the wii is even 1 TF"

I am so awed by how inane this statement is, that I can't even comprehend how much you have no idea what you're talking about.

Anyway, what I really wanted to know is if the PS3 is consuming power at "game level" or at "standby level" when it is folding. Anyone know?

PaulMorel

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> This is nothing short of a revolution. They should give out points for leasing your processing power to profitable companies in order to buy stuff on PSN or HOME. There are companies out there interested in taping into this processing power.

DarkSideDave

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> WOW! Maybe now they can continue this progress by making me actually want to PLAY their system!

miss_ali1984

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> How about enabling background downloading while folding?

Surely it can't be that hard, given that you can use the browser when you fold.

RedRedSuit

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> "Flop"... I couldn't have described the PS3 better myself!

[nerdy laugh]

REUYL

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> I don't understand those stupid fanboyish comments about PS3 lacking games. Folding@home is there to find cure for deadly diseases we don't know if we will suffer them or not!.


PS3 has many games despite they are mostly multiplatform titles.

BluDiode

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> they really need to allow us to play our mp3s or music CDs while we flop.

sectionz

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @Bissrok: @x999x:

And you two miss the point completely.

PapaBear

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> So is this the best game on ps3 right now?

x999x

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> That doesn't sound too surprising.

I mean... what else are you going to do with a PS3?

Bissrok

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Sounds great. Still though, I don't like just using power constantly. Though from looking around it seems that it costs < $20 to have it folding each month.

The worldview is amazing looking.

drivebybiped

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @topgeargorilla:

What are you talking about? You can sign up and use your PC to fold as well.

Get your Windows, Linux, Mac client here
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

Valee

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> What is interested is the hype behind this project. The poor will never see the medicines. This project isn't about cures. It's about money free research going to pharmecuticle(sic) companies, so they get higher profits and their shares go up.
If you disagree, please explain the process from this research to a cure to your wife's Alzheimer's.
Remember, Sony is getting paid for having this feature on the system, because it is a hell of a lot cheaper then owning 250,000 ps3's plus the electricity to power them.
It's nice that people are working on cures for things in this world. It sucks that the only reason these cures exist would be for profit.

Unique

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @AvocadoOverboard: That was priceless.I knew folding was going to get updtaes. If you look carefully it says version 1.0, I hope they add some reference to what molecule is what. I am curious about what each color means. Also I hope they add more worldviews.

jackal888

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> This is actually a cool thing Why hasen't this sort of stuff be happening before, such as with pc's? I'm sure a whole lot of computers would do more to help with solving diseases than a PS3

topgeargorilla

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Great, more of Kotaku's Anti-PS3 bias.
Give the console a break guys!

K-OSS

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> With so few quality games, its no surprise that so many PS3 owners are using "spare" cycles for Folding@Home. Can't knock the motivation behind the cause, but I would expect as more exclusive titles are released more PS3's will be sold and a decreasing percentage of owners will be willing to pony up their PS3's time and energy (not to mention their electric bills).

djRuss

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Sony will be feeling the "Halo-effect" this Fall. Am I right?

Just kidding this is great news. It puts gamers in a good light and hopefully it ends up doing a lot of good.

FelixLighter

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> I don't think games will kill off Folding@Home on the PS3. It may likely just die off as people lose interest in getting work units done. However, leaving your PS3 on in Folding@Home while you're at work or sleeping isn't going to change because you have more games to play -- you can't play while you're at work or sleeping.

Maybe Sony will offer some sort of trophy/achievement for work done in Folding@Home. Then when Home comes out, people can show off how many work units they've completed in Folding@Home.

hexix

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> They have the technology, but have yet to scale the 1 petaflop summit. That would really pwn.

JCtheMC

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> I'm number 42 on the Kotaku team, who is whitesanjoro??????

Laz81

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Id be supprised if the combined power of the wii is even 1 TF. Things like this make my eventual aging to dementia that much smoother a transition.

Ive still got 60 or so years in me before that hits.

cerberus_oz

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> @asTer0id:

Seeing that 250,0000 isn't a real number what you think? Obviously not every person who ahs purchased a PS3 is folding so the number is clearly 250,000.

Sheesh

LittleBigPlaneteer

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> I'm sure this and upcoming updates to F@H on PS3 has something to do with the selling of all these cycles by Sony to outside companies reported earlier. They better give some good stuff to the users for all that wear and tear done to the systems.

bag0rice

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> um, do you mean 250,000 or 250,0000 ? over 2.5 million PS3s have been sold?

asTer0id

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> terrafloppy? that's what she said!(sorry)

AvocadoOverboard

]]> <![CDATA[PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update]]> Now if only they can get those Wiis and 360s folding, old people will be cured in no time.

Chebwa

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