http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/ Engadget Comments for Folding@Home recognized by Guinness World Records http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Oct 31st 2007 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/
Using rough calculations of .106 kwH rate (final cost w/ distribution) here in NJ and the PS3 using 200W while folding, that puts the cost at ~.02 an hour and a total of $15.26 of electricity a month.

Is Folding worth $15 a month/$183 a year compared a similar sized contribution to a an effective medical organization (some are much better than others)?]]>Nov 1st 2007 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/
Thats is a great question and i had never considered that. I'd be interested to know too]]>Nov 1st 2007 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/
@Frozenrubber - You bring up the cost of running the programs by mentioning the price of electricity, what you are forgetting is that these academic institutions are not the ones running the programs, but instead it is your computer during its idle time (I have mine set up to run when my desktop is idle). The only cost to these academic institutions is a small group they have to maintain the program and the scientists that create the programs and process the data. These same projects would previously be done on dedicated supercomputers which do not have the same processing power as 670,000 desktops / PS3's working together and have a much, much higher purchase and maintenance cost.]]>Nov 1st 2007 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats]]>Nov 1st 2007 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/
OS Type TFLOP Active CPUs
Windows 170 179008
GPU 39 654
PLAYSTATION®3 897 36158

Do the math, you get an average of 0.94 GFLOPs per Windows box, 24 GFLOPs per PS3 (!!!), and almost 60 GFLOPs (!!!!!!) per GPU. I just got a Radeon X1950 GT, but it's only 256 MB (apparently their GPU folding algorithm really needs 512) or I'd contribute myself. I might try it anyway...

Think about it, though -- the average video-card processor in this race does almost 60 times the folds of the average CPU. That's simply staggering.]]>Nov 1st 2007 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/
I sold my PS3 as soon as I learned I could get Devil May Cry 4 on 360 as well. Maybe I'll pick one back up in a few years to play Metal Gear Solid 4. It's the exclusive I see coming out on PS3 in the next year that's worth owning.]]>Nov 1st 2007 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/
Little Big Planet is an interesting concept, but not one I see myself getting caught up in. I will, however, fess up to the quality of Ratchet and Clank and wish 360 had it, too. It's not nearly enough to make me regret selling my PS3, though.

The only other big exclusive on the PS3 so far is GTA....and that game has overstayed its welcome. Vice City was the last time that GTA was fun.

What's funny is that my favorite genre of games is RPG's, a category PS systems usually excel at. FF XIII doesn't interest me, though. Hell, most of the series other then the first few and XII bore the hell out of me. Square has made some amazing RPG's, but most of the FF series doesn't qualify other than graphically (this is my own opinion only). My favorite RPG in recent years was Tales of Symphonia....a Gamecube title, no less!

For 360 I have Beautiful Katamari, Mass Effect if it comes out before the next consoles launch, N3, Fable 2, BioShock, and all the older games like Dead Rising. They may not be console sellers for everyone, but they snagged me.

This really went of topic...lol
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You pointed out really well why people should just get the system that suits them best. My taste runs more contrary to yours, and fps games like Halo, Gears of War and Bioshock makes me dizzy, whereas I can spend hours playing FF, GTA, God of War, MGS and other quirky Japanese games (for example Loco Roco), so for me there aren't any 360 exclusives that I care about.

]]>Nov 1st 2007 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/RPI team 2740 FTW!]]>Nov 1st 2007 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/
Ooh. Spooky. It MUST be Halloween.]]>Nov 1st 2007 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/they only did the old and hard to find X1900s and they were easily able to go past PS3s
if they could give the effort to add that to current gen Radeon HD and GeForce 8 cards, PCs would really be on the move]]>Nov 1st 2007 1:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-highperformance]]>Nov 1st 2007 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/
The best thing you could do? Not buy the PS3 and donate the cash. But where's the fun in that?]]>Nov 1st 2007 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/
[Ryan, I replied to the first post, but it showed up as unthreaded, though. Please fix your comment system.]]]>Nov 1st 2007 2:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/
PS3 processes the data, lawnmowers CRUNCH it.]]>Nov 1st 2007 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/
Just thought I'd point that out.]]>Nov 1st 2007 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/I understand that the information was corrected, but as the above commenter has said, deleting our comments doesn't make your mistake go away, and is a bad editorial practice. The solution is retraction, not redaction Mr. Topolsky.]]>Nov 1st 2007 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/
Please, do not remove the comments again.]]>Nov 1st 2007 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/
Do you expect us to believe that the critical ]]>Nov 1st 2007 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/folding-home-recognized-by-guinness-world-records/Nov 1st 2007 6:41PM