PS3 Supercomputing cluster 4x faster than IBM's BlueGene/L


	PS3 Supercomputing cluster 4x faster than IBM's BlueGene/L

Xtraeme

3-16-2007 1:49 AM

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ps3, playstation 3, supercomputer, ibm, cell processor, supercomputing, petaflop, gigaflop, science, folding@home, fah, stanford, technology

Xtraeme says:

The article goes a little further and says,

A standard PC working alone would take a day to simulate 1 billionth of a second of protein folding. But scientists believe that 10,000 idle PS3s can be four times faster than IBM's BlueGene/L System, which cranks out 280.6 trillion calculations per second.

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