Folding@Home on the PS3

Check out the stats for the PS3 doing the Folding@Home project. Wow ..

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats

This is what I saw at 2:30pm on March 23, 2007

OS Type	Current TFLOPS*	Active CPUs	Total CPUs
Windows	151	159198	1624934
Mac OS X/PowerPC	7	8716	95341
Mac OS X/Intel	8	2716	7216
Linux	42	24971	215703
GPU	41	700	2188
PLAYSTATION®3	367	14971	15914
Total	616	211272	1961296

Riding The Multi-core Revolution Demo

Here is a long .. but very interesting presentation called "Riding the Multi-core Revolution Demo"
It discusses the trends of Parallel processing .. and multi core computing and the effects on software development.

Covered in the demo is a discussion of GPU use for specialized software computation (other than graphics)
It also mentions IBM's Cell processor use of specialized multi-cores .. talking about how to write scalable programs to make use of it.

about 32 mins into the Demo .. is the "16,000" chicken demo referenced earlier in the blog.
http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/Riding%2520The%2520Multi-core%2520Revolution.html