News Folding@Home reaches a Petaflop

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/09/21/folding_home_reaches_a_petaflop/1

The Folding@Home project, which uses the power of CPUs around the world to help find cures to diseases, has managed to reach a full petaflop of calculating power.

 

Wow that's a lot of processing... just image the amount of power all those P4's must be burning!

 

Is it possible to get other consoles contributing?

and bit-tech's CMS doesn't highlight grammar mistakes either

 

Fixed!

 

Petaflop eh, wow, nice =]

Just joined the bit-tech folding team (late, but better than never), need to work out how to run F@H on multiple cores, so I may add my bit of contribution.
Multiple instance with same username or different usernames?

 

I signed up for the team too!

One petaflop, I hadent even heard of that before.

 

Jesus, i didn't know what Folding@home was on my PS3 - seriously thought it was just spam..
Thank god for this article, signing up now

 

So does this count for the race to a Petaflop?

http://www.petaflop.info/

 

run multiple instances of the command line client. When running the initial setup, you have to go into the advanced options and change the machine ID of the 2nd instance to 2. Otherwise it will not work properly. It's rather simple.

 

Sweet. I am gonna get my PS3 and my PC running on this when I get home from work. Anything I can do to help.

 

Anyone know if they have multi threading enabled software yet?

I'd love to contribute my quad core.

 

Woo feels good to have contributed!

 

ta

 

So, why not let XBOX360 join it

 

Because C# is too slow and microsoft would charge people to download it

 

Absolutely! F@H actually has an SMP client that can utilize dual or quad cores, and you get a point bonus for using that client, too! It's in beta and should be on their downloads page.