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===Distributed computing===
With the help of the computing power of over half a million PlayStation 3 consoles, the distributed computing project [[Folding@home]] has been recognized by ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' as the most powerful distributed network in the world. The first record was achieved on September 16, 2007, as the project surpassed one [[FLOPS|petaFLOPS]], which had never previously been attained by a distributed computing network. Additionally, the collective efforts enabled PS3 alone to reach the petaFLOPS mark on September 23, 2007. In comparison, the world's second-most powerful supercomputer at the time, IBM's [[Blue Gene/L]], performed at around 478.2&nbsp;teraFLOPS, which means Folding@home's computing power is approximately twice Blue Gene/L's (although the CPU interconnect in Blue Gene/L is more than one million times faster than the mean network speed in Folding@home). As of May 7, 2011, Folding@home runs at about 9.3 x86 petaFLOPS, with 1.6&nbsp;petaFLOPS generated by 26,000 active PS3s alone.