POINT IN CASE

THE CELL CPU DOSE 20 TIMES BETTER FOR FOLDING, THEN

GENERA;L CPU FOR GENERAL CPMUTING,

I DONT NEED A TERAFLOP GENERAL CPU FOR WE SURFING

OR FORUMJ POSTING,

SOO A CELL CPU= A T LEAST 10 REGULAR CPUS

watch youtube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoMHnKMD_Aw

901 teraflops

tomorow sunday, 1 petflop wiill be pased

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html
Also, on that link, 264 333 264 333 576 576 576 576 582 582 582 582 are the number of atoms per ps3 work unit?

A few of the seemingly non PS3 work units.. 19399 6115 1135 14917 14836 91787 91787 87920 25541 18894 126006 77373 126006 308047

I see that the tone of the messages that some of these PS3 posters maybe taken as an insult or flamebait by the WCG users here, as it is for a completely different project. The result of this tone is that the replies try to dispute the original post or somehow dismiss this as old or irrelevant news.

However, I believe that any improvement to open a new technology more to some humanitarian project (or at least some project that a user believes is worth contributing to) is good news.

I can see how some WCG members may be peeved that F@H is getting a lot of press and due to their new PS3 client and WCG is not mentioned at all. Especially, when it is being multi-posted here by the same person, it may be taken as an effort of rubbing it in rather than something useful.

But perhaps a silver lining is that this new technology may end up encouraging the regular CPU users to move their processing power to where their work will be more useful. It's common knowledge that a good percentage of people just enjoy playing the stats and points game. With the high efficiency of the PS3/GPUs, perhaps these regular CPU members may feel that they can no longer compete in this "game" against PS3/GPU users that can crunch the same WU in 1/10th the time. And indeed if the numbers are true, the CPUs are no longer contributing significantly as compared to the GPU/PS3 clients for F@H.

So for those feeling slighted by these PS3 news and posts in WCG forums, view the bigger picture, the more processing for F@H potentially frees up resources to go to other distributed projects. So for those looking for something to take from this, go forth and at least inform the CPU users at F@H to leave from their obsoleted job of doing F@H WUs to some other worthy distributed project where they can use their CPUs to do a job that no other tool can do better or faster.

An analogy is that the F@H project can be thought of as having to cut a huge grass field. Regular CPUs are like scissors, and the new PS3/GPU clients can be though of like inventing a lawnmower. Why use your 200,000 people armed with scissors to cut 1/10th of the field when you have 20,000 people armed with lawnmowers that can cut 9/10s of the field. Instead you might use your scissors to do specialized tasks that only scissors can do: haircuts (other distributed project like WCG). Well, at least until they invent the equivilant of clippers (GPU/PS3Client for WCG)

When they can do WCG work i will get one