While Sony has stated that it will take years for game developers to really utilize the PlayStation 3 (PS3)'s potential with software, Folding@Home, which is a feature added with the 1.6 update, is giving some indication of the PS3s sheer power. According to the Stanford project's latest statistics, the PS3 is leading all other platforms.

The statistics are sorted by operating system and show that the PS3, at the time of writing, has 516 current TFLOPS, very far ahead of the windows users that come in at 152, despite having thousands and thousands more active CPUs. Another statistic worth mentioning is for ATI GPUs, which currently sits at 41 TFLOPS with just 708 active CPUs. The PS3 currently shows 21062 active CPUs.

This is an incredible boost for the project and we can only hope that it will continue to grow. Here are the statistics at time of writing.

OS Type Current [B]TFLOPS Active CPUs Total CPUs[/B]

Windows 152 159564 1625622
Mac OS X/PowerPC 7 8737 95371
Mac OS X/Intel 9 2756 7272
Linux 43 25126 215901
GPU 42 708 2199
PLAYSTATION®3 516 21062 22299
Total 769 217953 1968664

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I smell a bit of rigging,could this be anything like the old driver rigging of the ATI/Ninvida/Quake 3 days of "look mines faster"?