Highwater Mark

[codysluder]

I PREDICTED 2 PETAFLOPS BY JUNE!!! ... as long as growth in active PS3 folders continue.

The GPU2 client will be making a big contribution too. Just wait. And it would be even greater if they could figure out how to run FAH on nvidia GPUs.

[Risme]

This might help on the introduction of Nvidia F@H client sometime in the future. Because if I remember correctly the reason or at least one of the reasons for Folding@home not having an Nvidia GPU client is because the people behind F@H didn't like CUDA.

I would certainly want to hear what the people in charge of F@H would have to say about this interesting piece of news. Even though it's most likely too early for any comments on their part, but time will tell.

[Tobit]

I would certainly want to hear what the people in charge of F@H would have to say about this interesting piece of news. Even though it's most likely too early for any comments on their part, but time will tell.

Vijay Pande, head cheese, already commented on this on his blog: http://folding.typepad.com/

[Risme]

*Facepalm* Duh, I should have checked typepad first. Oh well, now it's posted here too.

[7im]

This might help on the introduction of Nvidia F@H client sometime in the future. Because if I remember correctly the reason or at least one of the reasons for Folding@home not having an Nvidia GPU client is because the people behind F@H didn't like CUDA.

The subtle difference between didn't like and doesn't work might have been lost in the translation.

[apd183]

Yeah, what's up with this?
We went from <40k PS3s to >60k PS3s overnight? Somethings not right here.

In case you were still wondering, this was released last week: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV

[Foxery]

Yeah, what's up with this?
We went from <40k PS3s to >60k PS3s overnight? Somethings not right here.

In case you were still wondering, this was released last week: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV

Yes, but this should reduce the crunching time because you have to turn it off to play games. It also doesn't explain how 20,000 new buyers also discovered Folding all on the same day. Anyway, if WUs are being returned, no one's going to complain

[ElectricVehicle]

Yeah, what's up with this?
We went from <40k PS3s to >60k PS3s overnight? Somethings not right here.

In case you were still wondering, this was released last week: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV

Yes, but this should reduce the crunching time because you have to turn it off to play games. It also doesn't explain how 20,000 new buyers also discovered Folding all on the same day. Anyway, if WUs are being returned, noone's going to complain

20,000 new buyers didn't discover it in one day. There were issues with stats servers for a few days and the osstats page that shows how many clients there are was down for longer. So this increase was over at least two days and probably over 3 or 4 days.

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OS Type            Current TFLOPS*    Active CPUs
PLAYSTATION®3                 1747          57858
Last updated at Mon, 05 May 2008 12:03:31

You can see the numbers are holding up pretty well. From my earlier post, you can see that PS3's are getting added pretty quickly recently. There was certainly a big surge of PS3s added during the time when the stats were delayed, but there's no indication that the current, approximately 60,000 PS3 clients aren't real.

[apd183]

If some of those clients haven't had their machine on for a while and finally turned it on to play GTA4, that could explain an increase. Yes it doesn't fold while they're playing, but now that their machine is on it can fold when they aren't. It could also be new consoles from people who were waiting for a popular game to be released.

I haven't been following the total CPU number; how fast has that been increasing?

[Brian Redoutey]

I too thought the stats was a fluke of some sort, surge etc...
It did start up the day GTAIV was released. It makes me wonder what will happen when MGS4 comes out, can Stanford handle going past 3 petaflops?

[Ivoshiee]

I too thought the stats was a fluke of some sort, surge etc...
It did start up the day GTAIV was released. It makes me wonder what will happen when MGS4 comes out, can Stanford handle going past 3 petaflops?

As the current FAH infrastructure is supposed to handle 1M active clients then 3PF is not an issue.

[anandhanju]

After day 2 of nVidia client launch:

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OS Type             Current TFLOPS*    Active CPUs    Total CPUs
Windows             192                202068         2054565
Mac OS X/PowerPC    7                  8487           116545
Mac OS X/Intel      26                 8488           51668
Linux               71                 41811          310434
GPU                 231                3353           10511
PLAYSTATION®3       1452               51498          541594
Total               1979               315705         3085317

[alancabler]

Thanks, anandhanju,
Here's a snapshot from Monday, June 16th, just before the nVidia release:

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OS Type 	  Current TFLOPS* 	Active CPUs 	Total CPUs
Windows 	           189           199022     2049312
Mac OS X/PowerPC        7             8507      116477
Mac OS X/Intel 	     26             8464       51436
Linux                  71	         41577	   309595
GPU                   143	          2068	     9059
PLAYSTATION®3 	    1487	         52716	   539745
Total                1923           312354     3075624  

note: Windows CPUs have increased in step with new GPUs.

[paydirt]

Before GPU2, we had around 500 "active" GPUs. I'm glad to see that number at 3353 and growing... Let the twin powers of AMD and nVidia combine!

[bowman]

Well, I certainly hope everyone will update their drivers to make sure we're getting all the speed we can from these cards.. And whop the PS3 back to the stone age where it belongs! :D