[ExI] Best Distributed Computing Project to Support

[Spargemeister]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Gary Miller <aiguy at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I've currently got a 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 and 1 core of an Intel 2.4 Ghz Q6600
> crunching Folding at Home.

There's an Extropy.org Folding at Home team (#346) that's been active for
several years.

> I'm thinking of buying a Playstation 3 to do Folding at Home on also.  I
> understand that the IBM cell processor and
> the software written to do Folding at Home on the Playstation with help from
> Sony runs crunches proteins many
> times faster than a Quad Core PC.

Yeah, I bought myself one recently and it really cranks out the WUs.
With the PS3 contribution, F at H broke the petaflops mark last fall.

-Dave