PS3 Client officially Announced :-)

Jeff_Grant · Post by **Jeff_Grant** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:36 am

http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/070315e.pdf

http://www.mercurynews.com/lifestyle/ci_5440897

thanks to Lexic for the post on FAH.

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:44 am

If only I could afford the $600 for the system

Mike

seems like it would make a cheap folding farm for the performance. 1 hour for a work unit

Wonder if you can set your team number on it.

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:55 am

Yeah you can, some pretty pictures of it here.

Dan

grunt · Post by **grunt** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:18 pm

any links where I can see how to set it up? It can fold till I leave....

Post by **dicecca112** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:47 pm

There are some issues right now.

1 that is bad is that there is a 16character limit on username. As for how to set it up, I have no idea, there really is nothing on folding-community.org other than what some people are folding, and little questions in that particular forum.

I would say grunt be a guinea pig and see what happens.

Found this though http://www.scei.co.jp/folding/en/faq.html

grunt · Post by **grunt** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:11 pm

well Im doing it, with the latest update I guess it just has it ready to install under the network tab... I just began as we speak...

Core: SCEARD2 1.9.75282
.0872s/frame 197.90 NS/DAY

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:50 pm

This is shocking, you thought the GPU client folded well:

http://kotaku.com/gaming/folding%40home ... 246543.php

Stuff getting a server farm for F@H get a PS3 farm!!!

Dan

werewolfdaddy · Post by **werewolfdaddy** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:24 pm

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.

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:39 am

PS3 crunching numbers impressed me!!!! For $600 you can blow away any pc out there - NICE!

Mike

now who wants to donate a couple ps3's to legit reviews for folding on - I can keep them here at my house of course

Post by **dicecca112** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:25 am

werewolfdaddy wrote: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

grunt · Post by **grunt** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:32 pm

well without folding a full 24 hours its turned in roughly 900 points, I could try and do math but Im pretty drunk lol... Its been turned on and gamed with throughout the day, so it could be a little better.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:52 am

sweet grunt... If you get a second take a picture of that PS3 crunching away

grunt · Post by **grunt** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:20 am

grunt · Post by **grunt** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:21 am

sorry for the bad pic dude, tried to hurry up for ya

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:21 am

Holy chit. Is that afull 3-d representation? Can you spin it to look at various angles?

Wife told me I cant even get a PS3 for God of War 3 if it is exclusive to it!!

Gotta hate, err, love marriage

Mike

grunt · Post by **grunt** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:55 pm

KnightRid wrote:Holy chit. Is that afull 3-d representation? Can you spin it to look at various angles?

Yeah I just checked while I was at work... You can change all angles and zoom in as well plus change the way it looks (make it look more like jello lol)

frosty22 · Post by **frosty22** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:06 pm

grunt wrote:
KnightRid wrote:Holy chit. Is that afull 3-d representation? Can you spin it to look at various angles?
Yeah I just checked while I was at work... You can change all angles and zoom in as well plus change the way it looks (make it look more like jello lol)

I didn't know it could do that, mine just shows the planet earth spinning....I confiscated my Kid's PS3...It's a dedicated folder now.

grunt · Post by **grunt** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:58 am

Im just wondering when it will fold one unit PER core?

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:12 am

grunt wrote:Im just wondering when it will fold one unit PER core?

oh now that would be sick... is it folding one unit on all cores right now?

grunt · Post by **grunt** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:22 am

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..