Nov 07 2008

Folding@home Honored for Good Design

When many of you are done playing games or watching videos for the night, you chose to give back by launching Stanford University’s Folding@home application on your PLAYSTATION 3. Whether you do it to benefit society, or just because the visualizations look cool, over a million of you have found the experience to be rewarding. [...]

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Sep 17 2008

Start your “Life with PlayStation”

+ Posted by Noam Rimon

If you’ve ever wished you could find everything you need to start your day on your PLAYSTATION 3, Life with PlayStation give you one more reason to do so. This free service delivers a new way for you to utilize your PS3 to instantly access real-time news and information like weather updates from over 60 [...]

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Aug 29 2008

Life with PlayStation is on its way

+ Posted by Noam Rimon

I’ve got some good news and some okay news. We’ll start with the okay part. We’re still pushing some paperwork on Life with PlayStation — so hold tight just a bit longer. Now on to the good news, the Life with PlayStation application is looking great and to quench some of the curiosity around what [...]

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Dec 25 2007

PlayStation Tips #2 – Folding@home

+ Posted by Noam Rimon

How about helping conduct advanced biological research over this holiday season? No, you don’t need to be a scientist to do that, the researchers over at Stanford University already have came up with software that can operate on your PLAYSTATION 3 console and perform multitude of complex operations that will help their research against diseases [...]

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Dec 18 2007

New Folding@Home Features Coming

+ Posted by Noam Rimon

As we approach one million PLAYSTATION 3 consoles participating in the Folding@Home program, we continue to improve the FAH client. With the new Firmware v2.1 we also prepared an updated version of FAH, which can soon be automatically downloaded by clicking on the FAH icon. This updated version includes the following new features: If you [...]

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Nov 01 2007

Folding@home Recognized by Guinness World Records

+ Posted by Noam Rimon

I’d like to be the first one to congratulate Folding@home users for being recognized by Guinness World Records as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world! The record was set on September 19, 2007 when F@h surpassed a petaflop. For those of you who have been following the stats and have read my [...]

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Sep 25 2007

Folding@home Petaflop Barrier Crossed (Update)

+ Posted by Noam Rimon

This post comes on the heels of my previous post, which talked about the crossing of the Petaflop barrier. The influx of gamers supporting this cause has grown so greatly that we’ve actually broken a second record within a week! This time the aggregated computation power of the PS3 consoles — by themselves — has [...]

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Sep 19 2007

Folding@home Petaflop Barrier Crossed

+ Posted by Noam Rimon

The momentum and excitement for the Folding@home project continues. This time it’s something that the Folding community and the computer science field as a whole have been anxiously awaiting — the crossing of a milestone known as a petaflop. A petaflop equals one quadrillion floating point operations per second (FLOPS). If you’d like to imagine [...]