PS3 enables Folding@home project to set Guinness world record for computation speed

Sony has announced that PLAYSTATION 3 systems, part of Stanford University’s Folding@home program, have enabled the distributed computing project to be recognized by Guinness World Records as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world.

The record was initially set on September 16, 2007 as Folding@home surpassed one petaflop (one quadrillion floating point operations per second). The PS3 contribution itself reached the petaflop mark on September 23, 2007, according to Sony.