PS3 community launches Sunday Night Foldathon

The said event is dubbed as Sunday Night Foldathon (SNF), and here's how it goes: This Sunday night, March 25, all PS3 users are encouraged to turn on their systems and run the folding program. It could be anytime you want, even right before you go to Dreamland and you can just let the program run until you wake up in the morning. And that's it.

[techie]

Oooh good experiment - they can then find out how efficient it actually is and work out the yeilds they will get:)

[Bleyd]

I installed Folding@Home on my PS3 and I've left it running for the day today to see how it will do. When I left for work this morning it was processing at 0.08 seconds per frame. No, I didn't get that backwards. I inverted that fraction to get 12.5 frames per second. I thought to myself "Huh, that's not that fast considering games usually go about 30 to 60 frames per second." So I got curious about my work PC and how it would do. I installed it on my work PC which is a Windows XP machine using a hyperthreading Pentium 4 CPU running at 3.00GHz and 2.99GHz with 512MB of RAM. It's estimating that it'll be done with the first frame in about half an hour. So the difference between the two machines seems to be .08 seconds for one frame vs. 30 minutes for one frame. Maybe I've got something configured wrong on my PC but that difference just simply astounds me.

[techie]

Wow that is pretty good. They really have optimised it for the ps3...it both says something about the cell processor, but also about having the same piece of hardware to program for. They have to program for th universal pc, so it's much harder to optimise for it.

But still that is great - I think if everybody did it every now and again the yeilds will be incredible. For once you can say having a console is a good thing

[Bleyd]

For whatever reason my computer has settled down and it's now averaging around 30 seconds per frame and not 30 minutes anymore. Still a staggering difference though.

[biomajor09]

I am up for it.

[Siesser]

I work Sunday night/Monday morning, but I'm more than willing to risk letting it run the 13 hours I'm gone :)

[kamakazi]

im off monday morning so ill be up sunday night :)

[kornbeaner]

just to see what happens.

[TheGoodMART]

Ill leave it on for the night, I'm sure my baby is going to be OK

[Chagy]

ill do it. i have left my ps3 on before all night its gonna be ok.

[smeg0rz]

ROCK AND ROLL

or should i say.. SLEEP AND FOLD!!!! \m/

[overrated]

probs be to busy playing RFOM

on a second note its nearly here!

[nice_cuppa]

to see what yield they could get and damage was done to your systems ???

please note this is only a question !

dont take it to serious !

great project by the way !

have fun people !

[overrated]

why say that you stupid inbred child

No im not a drama queen maybe you are considering all your posts, always have a hint of "someone plz flame this" its stupid i dont want the preachings of all the fanboys on here so dont try to ignite it with stupid posts like that.

[Bleyd]

How could they push your system to do more when it can only do so much in the first place. It's not like a car engine where you have to stay under a certain number of RPM's or else you do damage to your engine. A computer either works or it doesn't. It either goes fast or it doesn't go at all. The programming decides how best to utilize that set speed and even if they made the programming somehow magically more efficient during this time it would still only go as fast as the top speed of the processor.

[OutpostCommand]

Im in - im doing my bit.

[darx]

How lame.

[overrated]

why is it lame, its helping out people. oh wait it isnt on your 360 oh alright fanboy dont start crying. Maybe go out and buy all 3? no you cant do that you have sworn to the higher power of MS that you will stick to one console.

[MikeGdaGod]

ima try the folding thing this morning and i'll leave it on today when i go to work.

[Bad_Karma]

Anything for a good cause.

[Torch]

What time zone is this referring to?

[SmokeyMcBear]

i think its just sunday in general, look for stanford's page on monday to see if they report anything on it.

[marshman]

I'm IN

[neogeo]

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[SmokeyMcBear]

I was reading in on QJ about some sort of team, I know they have formed a team its a number you put in to start folding away, wondering if this site has done that

[neogeo]

I downloaded Folding@home for my 2 PCs and my PS3 tonight. Wow it takes my P4 running a 2ghz 30 min to do one frame. them my roomates fast duo core computer can do a frame in 14 seconds. my Ps3 can run a frame in 0.0797 of a second!! my Ps3 can do in 8 hours what it takes my home computer to do in 102 days. Try it yourself if you don't belive me. I honestly have just become a FANBOY! even if the PS3 never get another good game I'm will remain inpressed with the raw power.

http://folding.stanford.edu...