What is faster at Folding@home, PC or PS3?

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#1 Zoomer30
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My PS3 does 3-4 WUs a day where as my PC takes 1-2 days to do one, but I think the WUs are bigger on the PC.  So what is better, the PC or the PS3?
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#2 ejstrup
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PS3
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#3 thesource007
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PS3s are faster at the moment, but PC can fold some work units that are not currently available on the PS3
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#4 Zoomer30
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Really wishing they had this project on BIONIC, I run Climate Prediction and those models are HUGE, been running the latest one off and on for 4 months and am not quite to 70%.  I tried to run both FAH and CP at the same time but that does not work well, just slows both projects down.

At least if it were on Bionic, I could have it "switch" between projects each hour.  If I had a dual core or a quad core CPU it would be no big deal.

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#5 Thomas-Crown
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PS3. :D
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#6 budboarder
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The PS3 by far. The work units are actually smaller for the CPU version of the PC software. The GPU software can, however, process WUs that the PS3 cannot(as of yet), because they are only for certain ATi graphics cards. There isnt an 3+ core processor that is affordable for the vast majority of the public yet and until then the PS3 will riegn supreme.
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#7 eclipsed4utoo
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you can't compare the two because they work on two different types of workunits.