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Folding @ Home Petaflop Barrier Crossed 90

The official PlayStation blog is reporting that the petaflop barrier has been crossed by the nodes participating in the Folding @ Home project. The article talks about what this means for computer science, and why this awesome amount of computational power was reachable. "Just six months after we launched the program, nearly 600,000 PS3 users have registered. Second, we made several improvements to the application (v 1.2) that helped make the computations more accurate and enabled us to squeeze even more work out of each and every PS3 console -- we went from 450 teraflops to 800 teraflops. These factors, combined with the contribution from all the other platforms, helped us cross the barrier, which happened sometime over the weekend."

Comment Re:Profiling is worse than random searches. (Score 1) 1160

"The best thing the Muslim community as a whole - but especially its leaders - could do is unequivocally condemn terrorism committed in the name of Islam and take steps to both prevent and punish it. But it doesn't appear to be doing that. "


Now, I don't know about the good ol US of A, but here in Canada, whenever I've read articles in the local papers concerning Islamic extremists, there has ALWAYS been a note of how the local Islamic/Muslim/etc. organizations/religious groups have condemned those persons actions.

So, perhaps the Muslim community IS condemning it, and you're either not looking for such examples, or not looking in the right places.

Now, as far as preventing it, they can do no more than condemn in written and spoken word. As far as punishing it, what could they realistically do? Say there's a scenario where a member of a local Muslim community in "Any-Town, North America" blows themselves up in a military recruiting office, purportedly to "punish" those who occupy their Holy Land and murder their people (as they would claim). How could the Muslim community punish such an individual when said invididual is already dead at their own hands? Their family? Who's to say their family should be held responsible for the actions and beliefs of a family member? In truth, their is no way to "punish it".

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