Sony's recent release of 'Life with Playstation' has played the major factor in Folding@Home passing the 4 Petaflops mark. The new update for the folding application on the PS3 has attracted many more 'active' PS3 folders than in recent months. The last time the PS3 had ~ 60,000 active folders would have been when Metal Gear Solid 4 came out, and since then, the numbers have slowly declined back to an average of ~40,000.At the time of the 3 Petaflop breakthrough, The GPU guys were the major factor, and it has to be said, they've kept up consistent 'active' folder numbers, and even added ~ 300 Teraflops worth since then.
I personally would like to see 'active' PS3 numbers rise to ~ 100,000 and consistently stay there. Considering there is well over 10 million PS3 systems out there, i'm only asking for just 1%!
Taken from the OS Stats page -
| Client statistics by OS |
| OS Type | Current TFLOPS* | Active CPUs | Total CPUs |
| Windows | 207 | 217288 | 2191266 |
| Mac OS X/PowerPC | 6 | 7455 | 120622 |
| Mac OS X/Intel | 23 | 7580 | 64552 |
| Linux | 57 | 33374 | 333719 |
| ATI GPU | 494 | 4490 | 11195 |
| NVIDIA GPU | 1518 | 13802 | 32137 |
| PLAYSTATION®3 | 1716 | 60867 | 621405 |
| Total | 4021 | 344856 | 3374896 |
| Total number of non-Anonymous donators = 1085872 |
| Last updated at Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:04:09 |
| DB date 2008-09-28 05:00:01 |
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