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Early Morning Folding@Home
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
I was up at 3:30am this morning. Couldn’t sleep (for obvious reasons). So after working a bit, I decided to flip on the PS3 to see if the 1.6 firmware update came out. To my surprise, it had!
So I thought I’d help build some medical karma and start folding some proteins. I immediately joined the CMU team (Team 11243) - hell, it’s not like we have an NCAA Final Four team to root for or anything, but I do have a ton of school spirit.
Update: There’s another CMU team that’s doing better! Team 33403 is in much higher place than 11243, so I switched. CMU, why are there two teams here? Divided we fall and all that.
So here are some pics of Folding@Home jacking up my electric bill.
Cool visuals, very cool goal. I invite everyone with a PS3 (or PC for that matter) - join the CMU team and help us move up the list. I’ve seen some interviews where people claim a PS3 is about 30x more powerful doing these protein folding crunches than an average PC. I’m not completely buying into it, but if they spent a ton of time optimizing it for the Cell, who knows…
Update (3/23/07): Looks like the 30x power of a normal PC is true.
I was up at 3:30am this morning. Couldn’t sleep (for obvious reasons). So after working a bit, I decided to flip on the PS3 to see if the 1.6 firmware update came out. To my surprise, it had!
So I thought I’d help build some medical karma and start folding some proteins. I immediately joined the CMU team (Team 11243) - hell, it’s not like we have an NCAA Final Four team to root for or anything, but I do have a ton of school spirit.
Update: There’s another CMU team that’s doing better! Team 33403 is in much higher place than 11243, so I switched. CMU, why are there two teams here? Divided we fall and all that.
So here are some pics of Folding@Home jacking up my electric bill.
Cool visuals, very cool goal. I invite everyone with a PS3 (or PC for that matter) - join the CMU team and help us move up the list. I’ve seen some interviews where people claim a PS3 is about 30x more powerful doing these protein folding crunches than an average PC. I’m not completely buying into it, but if they spent a ton of time optimizing it for the Cell, who knows…
Update (3/23/07): Looks like the 30x power of a normal PC is true.
You Find Cool Stuff in Old Boxes
Monday, August 21st, 2006
Great games. The pics are too blurry to see, but they all require 512K of RAM. As an interesting comparison, the large version of this image takes up 984 KB.
Great games. The pics are too blurry to see, but they all require 512K of RAM. As an interesting comparison, the large version of this image takes up 984 KB.
