A Digital Age Deserves A Digital Leader

Folding@home Reaches 5 Petaflop Milestone

Forum rules
Welcome to our modest though robust team of folders! You are all more than welcome to join us or ask specific questions about how to go about folding but please start a new thread to post your questions, this way nothing of importance will be lost and everyone here will help you out.

If you just want to chat folding then the Folding@Home Home thread will be great!

Folding@home Reaches 5 Petaflop Milestone

Postby augie » Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:40 pm

Well, I don't know a petaflop from a hole in the ground but this sounds like an excellent achievement for Distributed Computing! ^*^ WTF all!!!

Folding@home passes the 5 petaflop mark

Based on our FLOP estimate (see http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai ... pe=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!
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Jung

eVGA X58 tri-SLI, i7 930 @ 3.8GHz., Corsair 6GB Dominator, Inno3D GTX470, eVGA260
ASUS P8P67 Pro, i7 2600K @4.60 GHz, 8GB RAM, eVGA GTX 460
Community Director
User avatar
Posts: 7870
Joined: Mon Aug 26, 2002 1:55 am
Location: Laurentians, Quebec

Re: Folding@home Reaches 5 Petaflop Milestone

Postby BILLMCC66 » Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:09 am

Well and a happy petaflop to you :confused
STILL LEARNING

LOGIC CAN GET YOU FROM A TO B BUT IMAGINATION CAN GET YOU ANYWHERE
PRO Level 8
User avatar
Posts: 317
Joined: Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:17 pm
Location: BELGIUM
Real Name: Bill McCarthy

Return to Distributed Computing

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest

cron
cron