I could hardly believe this fact from the Folding@Home statistics page: Total teraflops is 1107, or 1 petaflops!
That's 10^15 floating-point operations per second, one quadrillion in American terminology and one thousand billion in British terminology. A mind-boggling amount of processing.
It was only March when the Stanford F@H team said "With the addition of more PS3 clients, we're working our way up towards a petaflop." (To be proper, they should have included the "s" in petaflops.)
As you can see in the stats, it's indeed the addition of all those PS3s that pushed the project up and over this latest milestone.
That's 10^15 floating-point operations per second, one quadrillion in American terminology and one thousand billion in British terminology. A mind-boggling amount of processing.
It was only March when the Stanford F@H team said "With the addition of more PS3 clients, we're working our way up towards a petaflop." (To be proper, they should have included the "s" in petaflops.)
As you can see in the stats, it's indeed the addition of all those PS3s that pushed the project up and over this latest milestone.