| OS Type | Current TFLOPS* | Active CPUs | Total CPUs |
| Windows | 173 | 181694 | 1867933 |
| Mac OS X/PowerPC | 7 | 9281 | 108973 |
| Mac OS X/Intel | 18 | 5896 | 31084 |
| Linux | 44 | 25733 | 261056 |
| GPU | 41 | 700 | 4810 |
| PLAYSTATION®3 | 1053 | 42454 | 364448 |
| Total | 1336 | 265758 | 2638304 |
Folding@Home is a Stanford project to use home computers to simulate protein folding. It is also comes with the Playstation 3 and can be activated by clicking on an icon. Note that the Playstation 3 network is rated at over a petaflop. This is getting into the range of the human brain, although the brain only uses about 20 watts and is far more connected. The GPU stats are for programs using ATI X1900 class video cards, which can run the computations 20x to 30x faster than a CPU with SSE.
Here is a video snippet from DLTV that also shows simulated protein folding in action.
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