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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5287254.stm
The spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be harnessed by scientists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer's. Sony has teamed up with US biologists who already run the distributed computing project, folding@home (FAH). The project harnesses the capacity of thousands of PCs to examine how the shape of proteins, critical to most biological functions, affect disease. etc,, hmmm that sounds like a major coup, good for them, hope this generates good publicty for grid stuff in general, hmm wiondr if this will help the wcg projects?? |
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Sekerob
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wonder why a 3rd thread had to be opened with the PS3 story as subject
----------------------------------------Crunching with PS3 Online Gaming community and WCG working together My Head's  Added: Retep57, cannot delete until you delete yours, as u replied to mine
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wonder why a 3rd thread had to be opened with the PS3 story as subject Crunching with PS3 Online Gaming community and WCG working together My Head's did not see it, sorry, saw on news 1st, please delete thread cheers |
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spikey_richie
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i was about to post a 4th
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David Autumns
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They say "100 gigaflop scale per computer". Does that mean 100 gigaflops per second? Nah! I don't believe it.
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David Autumns
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Hi Dagorath
----------------------------------------apparantly nearer 200GFlops are possible its closer to a DSP Chip in the style of it's design (Trying not to tread on any technical bods toes at IBM) take a look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_microprocessor btw did you see this headline?   [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Aug 29, 2006 6:08:37 AM] |
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Sekerob
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Yeah, and i know a guy here that is looking for Will Smiths sidekick Tommy Lee Jones to zap us back to ignorance.
---------------------------------------- Don't know where, but earlier today StumbleUpon the Evening Post Website (proposing to these guys a new class in the selectable categories ...DC) 
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David Autumns
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 Sek you have to give me points for trying Real world X86 FPU equivalents 25.6GFlops per processor |
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Sekerob
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Ciao Autunno,
----------------------------------------Yes, u got my vote for a fat bonus in fatti........ and at least u can say ' ....per processor' There's been discussions for years, that the GPU cards are so specialised in calculations that would be suitable for the complex things DC's do, yet it's been talk (in the visible spectrum). oops, now i need to put on my 'ray ban' a dopo
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