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Folding@home Recognized By Guinness World Records
11:48PM Mark Wilson | Guinness World Records has acknowledged Folding@home as the world’s most powerful distributed computing project. On September 16, 2007, months after the program was first distributed to PS3s, Folding@home hit 1 petaflop—setting the record. But just a week later (September 23), PS3 users alone reached the petraflop mark. While Kaz Hirai revealed some of these numbers at his Tokyo Game Show keynote last month, it’s good to see gamers who are fueling Folding@home immortalised in the same context as marathon teeter-totterers and that guy who ate an airplane. Because they deserve it. [image] More »
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Stanford’s Folding @ Home has just crossed …
6:05AM Jason Chen | Stanford’s Folding @ Home has just crossed the petaflop barrier thanks to all those PS3’s cranking away because there aren’t any decent games to play. And for those not versed in science, petaflop means a Marco Materazzi amount of flops. It’s science. [Folding] More »
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Peter Moore Talks Xbox 360 Folding
5:45AM Seamus Byrne | Okay, he didn’t specifically talk about the same Folding that the PS3 does, but a similar research application. Moore told Mike Antonucci of The Mercury News: Then if we truly believe that we can in some way marshal the resources of a much larger installed base of Xbox 360 owners, with a processor that’s of equal power to the PS3, then you have my commitment that we’ll look at that. And if we believe we can add value to solving a gnarly problem such as the medical problems and the health problems that Folding@home seems to be doing, then we’ll certainly look at that very strongly. We’ve speculated about users developing their own research project as part of the XNA Game Developers Framework and our own Adam Frucci has begged for Folding to come to the Xbox 360, and it seems Microsoft is listening. It would just be so much easier if they just developed the project in house and included it into an update like the annual spring update, which went live today. –Travis Hudson Xbox 360 Folding Project Possible [Kotaku] More »
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