Folding@home to get a new GUI
If you use Folding@home on your PC, you probably either do so by running a console command, or the ugly GUI currently being used. Either way, you don’t get to enjoy the nifty GUI first seen on the PS3. That will all change in a few weeks:
Both the PC CPU and GPU clients will be [...]
PS3 folding performance isn’t THAT great
Since the launch of Folding@Home for Playstation 3, people have been awestruck in its apparent performance advantage over PCs that cost up to 2 or 3 times as much as a PS3, and consumes more power.
However, this article at Ars Technica explains that not everything is as it seems. They point out that the PS3 [...]
PS3 power usage during Folding@Home
We were the first to give the full scoop on power consumption in today’s consoles, so we broke out the trusty old watt meter to find out how much power is being sucked by the PS3 while folding. I had feared the worst, as the Cell processors must be working at their full potential [...]
