Based on our FLOP estimate (see http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats), Folding@home has passed the 5 petaflop mark recently. To put it in context, traditional supercomputers have just broken the 1 petaflop mark, and even that level of performance is very challenging to aggregate. The use of GPU's and Cell processors is has been key to this, and in fact the NVIDIA numbers alone have just passed 2 petaflops.
Thanks to all who have contributed and we look forward to the next major milestones to be crossed!
super, bien content
Posted by: Tchico | February 18, 2009 at 06:05 PM
Wow very impressing!
Well done @ all :)
Posted by: lordraphael | February 19, 2009 at 10:51 AM
If the folding@home team just put a bit more effort into publicized this project, more members of the general public (ie. people who aren't tech nerds like most of us ;) ) would start participating and we could quickly get processing power magnitudes higher than just 5PFLOPS - which is what this project needs to start seeing results soon.
Posted by: ace | February 20, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Wow!
I was a nvidia contributor until recently (machine started shutting down randomly), but still have a PS3 folding away.
Posted by: Rob | February 20, 2009 at 05:40 PM
Regarding:
"If the folding@home team just put a bit more effort into publicized this project, more members of the general public (ie. people who aren't tech nerds like most of us ;) ) would start participating"
While more media interviews would probably help, F@H largely depends on donors to spread the word! I just set up a Facebook Cause for my team and I'm inviting a lot of people. I think social networking sites are a big recruitment opportunity waiting to happen.
Posted by: Stephen Dewey | February 21, 2009 at 04:26 PM
Those are amazing numbers and spread the word anyway we can is Fantastic, the GPU client for Ati might need more tweeking but has increased my ability to contribute BIGTIME!
Posted by: Matthew Schurter | February 21, 2009 at 09:22 PM
Could not agree more with Stephen Dewey, more publicity could help a lot!!!
Posted by: Hans van der Leer | February 22, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Its privileged to be in this project, still only with 5 Teraflops. Big number in CPU measures, but small in GPGPU measure. Glad to be 1/1000 of this performance.
Jaak, http://estoniadonates.wordpress.com/
Posted by: Jaak Ennuste, Estonia Donates | March 01, 2009 at 12:42 PM
I installed FAH a week ago (Windows 6.23). I had two WU failures @ 12 and 15 hrs run time, then after 62 hrs, WU timed out at deadline. Total almost 90 hrs for nothing. I can't register (no e-mail) so I can't communicate. I will gladly donate time, but not to be wasted.
Posted by: RobinL | March 20, 2009 at 05:53 PM