ATTN: PS3 OWNERS!

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
As if the PS3 didn't already cost enough, imagine the power usage running a distributed application 24/7.

Someone have a Kill-A-Watt meter?

Even if you assume that the PS3 is always consuming 200 watts (the rated peak by a Kill-A-Watt), 24/7, it'll use around 144 kW a month. That's in the range of $10-$15 a month, depending on your energy prices.

 

[Minjin]

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: jpeyton
As if the PS3 didn't already cost enough, imagine the power usage running a distributed application 24/7.

Someone have a Kill-A-Watt meter?

Even if you assume that the PS3 is always consuming 200 watts (the rated peak by a Kill-A-Watt), 24/7, it'll use around 144 kW a month. That's in the range of $10-$15 a month, depending on your energy prices.

Imagine if everyone of you guys who do this Folding, instead donated the $10 a month or $120 a year to some cancer research charity. Has there been a single advance made due to distributed computing Folding?

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: Minjin

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: jpeyton
As if the PS3 didn't already cost enough, imagine the power usage running a distributed application 24/7.

Someone have a Kill-A-Watt meter?

Even if you assume that the PS3 is always consuming 200 watts (the rated peak by a Kill-A-Watt), 24/7, it'll use around 144 kW a month. That's in the range of $10-$15 a month, depending on your energy prices.

Imagine if everyone of you guys who do this Folding, instead donated the $10 a month or $120 a year to some cancer research charity. Has there been a single advance made due to distributed computing Folding?

Understanding protein folding is very important, but requires MASSIVE amounts of CPU time. I'm unsure of any specific advances made thus far, but its the kind of raw science that you never know what it will develop into. The whole "cure for alzheimers" thing is mainly PR - most people don't want to get behind something that doesnt have a tangible immediate benefit, even if it's long term benefits may be quite wonderful. (Ie space exploration)

 

[randomlinh]

results

 

[mlm]

The Stanford servers are getting slammed right now. If you haven't already downloaded the program or haven't started a work unit, be prepared to wait...

 

[luv2liv]

i remember Chris Rock said "they never gonna find a cure for cancer. they cant even find the cure of athlete's foot. how they gonna find the cure for cancer man!"

is it really true they dont want to cure patients... because then the patients dont need to come back anymore.

 

[Dacalo]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
I really think this will lead to overheating issues and kill many a PS3, at least, the first generation models out right now.

Nah, my PS3 has been doing fine. Overheating is least of its worries. The cooling system is pretty good and very quiet.

I hope to contribute to this cause, hopefully something good will come out of it in the future. It would be nice if Xbox 360 can contribute as well (I don't think Wii will help that much).

Originally posted by: luv2liv
i remember Chris Rock said "they never gonna find a cure for cancer. they cant even find the cure of athlete's foot. how they gonna find the cure for cancer man!"

We do have cure for athelete's foot.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: mlm

Originally posted by: destrekor
thats why I don't necessarily plan on leaving it on that long. And the thing does get a little warm due to the way the vent design is (better if standing than lying horizontal), so I don't really want to stress the system with that much heat for that long of time.

There's somebody on the NeoGAF forum who has kept his system on since launch. It's probably been idle quite a bit, but these systems are built to last.

the question that remains, is it merely on Standby, or actually fully on, with the OS running and all? Because I leave my PS3 on standby at all times, that way I can merely press the PS button to turn the system on.

Originally posted by: Dacalo

Originally posted by: luv2liv
i remember Chris Rock said "they never gonna find a cure for cancer. they cant even find the cure of athlete's foot. how they gonna find the cure for cancer man!"

We do have cure for athelete's foot.

having to apply a cream for at least a week isn't an ideal cure. but then again, interior diseases take a week or two of antiobiotics to kill too, so I guess its pretty equal in terms of cures for other cures and infestations. regardless, treatment methods can improve from this point.

 

[mlm]

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: mlm

Originally posted by: destrekor
thats why I don't necessarily plan on leaving it on that long. And the thing does get a little warm due to the way the vent design is (better if standing than lying horizontal), so I don't really want to stress the system with that much heat for that long of time.

There's somebody on the NeoGAF forum who has kept his system on since launch. It's probably been idle quite a bit, but these systems are built to last.

the question that remains, is it merely on Standby, or actually fully on, with the OS running and all? Because I leave my PS3 on standby at all times, that way I can merely press the PS button to turn the system on.

It's fully on. Until Folding came out, he kept the system mostly in the Resistance lobby.

 

[DaveSimmons]

The PS3 finally won at something:

F@H stats page

OS Type Current TFLOPS* Active CPUs Total CPUs
Windows 151 159080 1624733
Mac OS X/PowerPC 7 8710 95330
Mac OS X/Intel 7 2704 7196
Linux 35 24963 215678
GPU 41 696 2184
PLAYSTATION®3 328 13386 14322
Total 569 209539 1959443

The 13,386 PS3s are producing 57% of the total output, more than all other OSs combined and double the work of the 159,080 Windows PCs.

 

[Ramma2]

Yes!! Cure a few million people with cancer while destroying the planet for 6 billion...

 

[SoulAssassin]

So did they find a cure yet?

 

[imported_Imp]

LOL. After reading 6 pages of very entertaining posts on PS3 forums (fanboy-sm and PR cuddling is hilarious) about how the PS3 'rapes' all other computers and how it will 'cure cancer', it's nice to see some people respond to this with half a clue.

Originally posted by: mlm
I don't think they're really expecting people to run it 24/7. Most of the use will probably be seen during breaks between game play (one of the options is to run it once the system goes to idle).

Tell that to some very 'loyal' Sony fans wishing cancer upon those who question how this help's with games. That and how this justifies spending $600. I'm not saying that this is a bad program to help out, but the amount of energy spent running this thing 24/7 full load ($10 maybe) can be donated to a real cancer research foundation. That or help them buy their own super computers.

 

[randomlinh]

Actually, does anyone have a list of some organizations that do REAL research and don't waste the majority of donations on administrative stuff?

 

[mlm]

/bump

No horror stories about PS3's dying yet. There has been a bug uncovered though where a work unit can get stuck during the "turn in." The only way to get out of it is to restart the console.

All of the incidents appeared to happen around the same time, so hopefully it was just a server error.

 

[Vette73]

I am sure sony would love to have the ps3 fanboys leave their PS3 on all the time. That way it wears out faster/breaks and they have to buy another PS3.

 

[mb]

Do they have any games for the PS3 yet?

 

[Flammable]

Originally posted by: supafly
Do they have any games for the PS3 yet?

ridge racer ftw

can u choose teams to represent for ps3? hehe

 

[mlm]

Originally posted by: Flammable
can u choose teams to represent for ps3? hehe

For Folding? It's in the options menu.

Team Anandtech