Folding@home saves the world (via PlayStation 3) March 23rd

by Christopher Grant on Mar 15th 2007 12:26PM

Coupled with some glowing press about the admittedly impressive specs of the PlayStation 3's Cell processor comes news that the console's long promised Folding@home client will be using all those leftover processing cycles on March 23rd. The distributed computing project, whose PS3 partnership was detailed in an event at Stanford University this morning, will be accessible within the Network menu of the XrossMediaBar.

Why bother donating all that computing power (not to mention electricity) to "help study the causes of diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis and many cancers?" If you're not in it for the altruism (and we're talking serious good karma here), then at least you'll be able to enjoy watching the protein folding happen in real-time, and manipulate the presentation using the Sixaxis. Somewhere, a slightly disgruntled Will Wright is wondering when Sony's going to donate all that unused processing power to a SETI@home client.

Folding@Home (PlayStation 3)

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Reader Comments (54)

"a dirty ba$tard" @ 43,

You'll swallow any Republican propaganda. Anyway, Gore offsets all of his agency emmissions by activities such as mass tree-planting. Do you?

4. wouldn't you have to leave it on at all times?

Posted at 12:39PM on Mar 15th 2007 by JodyAnthony

i wouldnt suggest that. they have a nasty habbit of freezing up after a while.

.......and to the al gore comments. i dont really know or care about al gore a president or politics in general. but he is a good human being who is fighting the good fight. watch an inconvenient truth. its a real eye opener.

"i wouldnt suggest that. they have a nasty habbit of freezing up after a while."

WTF are you talking about? This isn't the 360 thread.

"watch an inconvenient truth. its a real eye opener."

It's a selective ommission of facts. Anyway, you suggested some fiction, so can I. Read Michael Crichton's State Of Fear. Both of them are works of fiction. Only one looks at the research data without an agenda.

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