[email protected] hits the Petaflop milestone thanks to PS3

Stanford University‘s [email protected] program has broken the petaflop milestone thanks to Sony‘s PlayStation 3. For those who don’t know what a petaflop is, it is the capability of a computer to do a quadrillion floating point operations per second (FLOPS). That’s the equivalent of every person on earth doing 75,000 simple math problems per second.

[email protected] was designed to simulate protein folding and perform molecular dynamics simulations. The data gathered here would be used to understand the progression of diseases such as Alzheimer’s, mad cow, cancer, and even Cystic Fibrosis.

Associate Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and [email protected] project lead pointed out that thanks to the PS3s and its owners who ran [email protected], the research process on the different diseases being studied has been sped up by a decade. The president and CEO of SCEA Jack Tretton also spoke about this achievement saying that:

When we introduced PS3, we knew its incredible processing power would allow for a great deal of innovation and creativity. It’s extremely rewarding to see that the scientific community has found a way to harness PS3 technology for humanitarian purposes and we continue to be amazed at what gamers and the [email protected] community have been able to accomplish in such a short amount of time.

This is something that PlayStation 3 owners who have been running [email protected] should be proud of. After all, without the 600,000 gamers who registered and helped out the project, this wouldn’t be possible.

Join: QJ.net [email protected] Team: #52781

Stanford University‘s [email protected] program has broken the petaflop milestone thanks to Sony‘s PlayStation 3. For those who don’t know what a petaflop is, it is the capability of a computer to do a quadrillion floating point operations per second (FLOPS). That’s the equivalent of every person on earth doing 75,000 simple math problems per second.

[email protected] was designed to simulate protein folding and perform molecular dynamics simulations. The data gathered here would be used to understand the progression of diseases such as Alzheimer’s, mad cow, cancer, and even Cystic Fibrosis.

Associate Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and [email protected] project lead pointed out that thanks to the PS3s and its owners who ran [email protected], the research process on the different diseases being studied has been sped up by a decade. The president and CEO of SCEA Jack Tretton also spoke about this achievement saying that:

When we introduced PS3, we knew its incredible processing power would allow for a great deal of innovation and creativity. It’s extremely rewarding to see that the scientific community has found a way to harness PS3 technology for humanitarian purposes and we continue to be amazed at what gamers and the [email protected] community have been able to accomplish in such a short amount of time.

This is something that PlayStation 3 owners who have been running [email protected] should be proud of. After all, without the 600,000 gamers who registered and helped out the project, this wouldn’t be possible.

Join: QJ.net [email protected] Team: #52781