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Why the Playstation 3 owns the PC in F@H |
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Written by Gizmo
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
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Ars Technica John Stokes The numbers are in, and the Playstation 3 is tearing up the Folding@Home charts like Michael Jackson on the 1983 Top 40. Check out the latest numbers, and you'll see what I'm talking about: | OS Type | Current TFLOPS* | Active CPUs | Total CPUs | | Windows | 154 | 162334 | 1629354 | | Mac OS X/PowerPC | 7 | 8920 | 95593 | | Mac OS X/Intel | 10 | 3068 | 7728 | | Linux | 43 | 25492 | 216436 | | GPU | 46 | 774 | 2284 | | PLAYSTATION®3 | 494 | 31050 | 41044 | | Total | 754 | 231638 | 1992439 |
Read the full story at Ars Technica : 31,000 PS3s are pushing over three times the TFLOPS of 163,000 Windows boxes, a feat that has many wondering about the hows and whys of the new console's apparent F@H dominance. Let's take a closer look at the phenomenon, starting with the numbers above. We can begin to get a handle on what's happening by organizing the main contestants by their TFLOPS/CPU ratio. In other words, this metric will give us the average number of TFLOPS per active CPU, which yields a quick-and-dirty view of which systems are bringing the most per-processor power to the project. Comment in the forums! |
