There is (or will be) a [EMAIL PROTECTED] client which runs under the PS3 game OS. It also has very nice graphics. See: http:// folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-PS3.html
-wn On Nov 14, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Derick Centeno wrote: > ugo wrote: >> Hello again :) >> >> Still out of topic, but i guesse that it's not a trouble ^^ >> As i see ps3 could be used for scientific research thanks to its >> Cell's cpu. >> I understood that first it would be for applications development, >> then >> maybe also for calculs light enough to do not need big calculators. >> I imagine that linked together several ps3 could provide more calcul >> power. >> Did you imagine a kind of [EMAIL PROTECTED] use to take benefit of this >> kind of use ? > Hi Ugo: > > Folding @ Home (http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html) and similar > applications which run on BOINC > (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/system_requirements.php) are designed to > function as screen savers while your computer is not busy doing > what you > want. It is intentionally designed for the person who is willing to > allow some computer time to be dedicated to assisting in some way > to the > total processing/calculation effort of serious scientific work. > Anyone > can contribute computer time, at any level of interest or skill. Many > offices and communities of all kinds have these programs running on > their systems and it does help. > > However, currently none of them run on any version of Linux which runs > on PowerPC systems. SETI @Home used to, but ever since they > switched to > BOINC, they no longer do. > > However, as the power within the PS3 is already massive -- it is more > than enough for anyone willing to use it while making the time to > learn > and do science throughout their studies up to and maybe even include a > Ph.D. Of course, by that time a new generation will be out unless we > are speaking of an occasional wunderkind who has completed their > doctoral work in Quantum Chemistry by 18. For the wunderkinds out > there, the PS3 could not happen fast enough, and whatever they do with > it will be unknown until they get it. > > However, I don't believe it has to be restricted to students. It can > and should be used by anyone to brush up on any area that interests > them. As their interests become more intricate and involved this > is one > system which is designed to move data no matter how large. And few > individuals are going to be moving Terabytes of data; what is > interesting is that even if one or a group of individuals did -- this > system should be able to spit out results as fast as completed > models to > be tested via programming routines have been designed. > > It's going to be interesting to find out if the rest of us can even > understand what those wunderkinds will have done. It wouldn't be the > first time professors totally underestimated or misunderstood their > students. We'll see. > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
