PS3 folds its way into the record books
The PS3 has made it into the Guiness book of records. Stanford University’s Folding@Home project is the world’s most powerful distributed computing network. All those PS3s working together produce a combined output of 1 petaflop, which is quite a lot of flopping – the equivalent of doing a quadrillion sums in a second. Over 670,000 PS3 users participate in the program, which uses consoles idle processing cycles to analyze the behaviour of complex molecules.
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