anyone noticed ?
theres a update to the PS3 new interface.. very high-tech now (widgets)
Yep saw this today now called Life with Playstation.
Was a bit confused on how to see my stats etc, so thought i'd post this hint from the FAH community.
Folding Forum • View topic - Life w/Playstation/F@H intergration out now! for real!!
Post 1 -racing4mat wrote:so in the new Life w/PS update, you can't edit anything in the F@H client? Like donor or team names?
You can, it's just hidden.
If you're on the LWP channel (i.e. the one with news and the Google Earth-like image), hold down square until the channel menu comes up, and while holding square scroll down to the F@H channel.
When you're on the F@H channel, hit triangle, and then select "Current channel." This will bring up the usual F@H menu.
Also it seems the points on ps3 may be down a little, but here's the official response from the Pande Group.
Post 2
I think it would be useful for me to give some background here. It's very clear that the ns/day is down, but that's not what it might seem. We're doing more complex science which runs slower on the PS3, so that's responsible for most of the slow down you're seeing. I've mentioned this in a recent blog post to give some details (
http://folding.typepad.com/news/2008/09 ... ation.html).
For those who are interested, it's slower because we're running a more complex version of the GB implicit solvent, which is much more computationally demanding; the upside is that this would be much more accurate. This is also the main solvent model we're running on GPU2 right now. In fact, earlier PS3 results pointed us to the significance and importance of moving to this new model, so this (and GPU2) reflects what we've learned so far.
However, there is a small performance hit due to all the other life with Playstation (LWP) eye candy. However, it's not very big in the end (the Cell and RSX GPU are very powerful), with most of the slow down in terms of ns/day coming from the new science code. The upshot of the LWP eye candy will hopefully be getting a lot more PS3 donors (but I guess time will tell there). So far, the response will be strong and I expect that this could in time double the FLOP count from PS3 donors in Folding@home, which itself will be pretty impressive. More importantly, with the advanced science now rolled out on both the PS3 and GPU2 platforms, we're well-poised to tackle some much more complex and interesting calculations.
