PS3 Client officially Announced :-)

[kenc51]

Since its only doing one at a time I am ASSUMING (cuz we all know Im no tech dude) it is only using 1 core. Although it folds like crazy so who knows.

It would be cool to play and fold at the same time. It will continue to fold for the team until I get some sort of address for my wife to mail it to me once Im gone..

AFAIK it runs a SMP client and uses all the PS3 cores at once!

[shadco]

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/6625/

GPU seems to be the best way to go, though. Still what the PS3 is pulling off is impressive.

nope that would be the SMP, you can average close to 2k points a day one a single dual core computer running 24/7

Here's a sample from one of my E6400's

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Index 2: folding now 1760.00 pts (91.577 pt/hr) 5 X min speed; 41% complete
  server: 171.64.65.56:8080; project: 2605, "Protein in POPC"
  Folding: run 6, clone 36, generation 17; benchmark 0; misc: 500, 200
  issue: Sun Apr  1 06:37:45 2007; begin: Sun Apr  1 06:37:58 2007
  expect: Mon Apr  2 01:51:05 2007; due: Thu Apr  5 06:37:58 2007 (4 days)
  preferred: Wed Apr  4 06:37:58 2007 (3 days)
  core URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~pande/Linux/x86/Core_a1.fah (V1.73)
  CPU: 1,0 x86; OS: 4,0 Linux
  assignment info (le): Sun Apr  1 06:37:44 2007; A6FB413F
  CS: 171.65.103.100; P limit: 524286976
  user: shad; team: 38296; ID: FBB764268582E24D; mach ID: 1
  work/wudata_02.dat file size: 2966223; WU type: Folding@Home
Average download rate 665.694 KB/s (u=2); upload rate 87.480 KB/s (u=1)
Performance fraction 0.801403 (u=1)
Average pph: 92.099, ppd: 2210.37, ppw: 15472.6, ppy: 807315