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Folding@Home on the PS3
If you thought buying a PlayStation 3 to enjoy quitely and solely its Blu Ray quality or the highly realistic games in its software pack, well…stop being that egotistic! Put your PS3 to work for better causes!
Sony informs us that it has teamed up with US biologists who already run the distributed computing project, folding@home (FAH).
The project harnesses the capacity of thousands of PCs to examine how the shape of proteins, critical to most biological functions, affect disease.
FAH say a network of PS3's will allow performance similar to supercomputers.
Via a partnership between Sony and the Folding@home distributed computing project, a client is being developed that will allow idle Cell Processors to turn their considerable computational power from crunching the polygons that makeup curvaceous videogame breasts to crunching the math of folding proteins hold the secret to curing cancer. Like the old SETI@home project that harnessed idle PCs to analyze masses of data collected by radio telescopes in hopes of discovering signals from another world, the Folding@home project will rely upon an army of PlayStation 3s rather than expensive super computers.
:source: Source: http://www.playfuls.com/news_04086_S..._Cell_CPU.html
:view: Homepage: http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-PS3.html
