Our newest obsession: Folding@home on the go

Great, now when I'm away from my PS3, I can have it in remote play and when I cant get access while I'm out, I can fold so I don't waste power. Now I just need to understand why when I try to connect to a public wireless point, say a Subway or hotel, I get a connection error on my PSP even though I get 100% signal strength.... anybody?

I need to use remote play more. Mostly on PSN updates. Start a demo download so when I get home from work its already to go.

Sooooo, the reason for alienating PSP owners who don't have a PS3 continues for what logical reasoning?

HalcyonGT

I need you to explain how in the world this is alienation of PSP users without a PS3. These users are unable to use the PSP for remote play of their PS3... that they don't have?

" I need to use remote play more. Mostly on PSN updates"

I wish they'd use it more. Games like that Piyotama and Rampart should use it.

K i'm lost ,. I have a PS3 not not a PSP(waiting on the new Model to get released) But what exactly is Remote Play?

Does it let me access my PS3 form my PSP? or my PSP stuff from my PS3 or both ways?

Also I heard something about being able to play a PSP game Via my PS3 as long as its(the UMD disc) in the PSP and the PSP powered on,. Any truth to this??

And does the PSP do any folding? or does it jsu tallow you to activate folding on your PS3 via your PSP? or just be able to wathc it take place on your PSP sitting at home?

@ Dustin - I hear you. I've used remote play very successfully in my apartment, connecting directly to my console. But every time I've ever tried to connect over the internet, it hasn't worked. I'm assuming it is wifi connection settings from wherever we are trying to work our PS magic.

Ryan

In the same vein as the PS Store, this would be an awesome feature if Sony allowed it to exist on the PSP on its own. I'm certain it doesn't take a cell processor to do some folding to contribute to the cause. Connect a PSP to the web, plug it in to the charger & go to sleep knowing your PSP is silently working for you.

@ tim parsons
you can acess your ps3 with the psp from any wireless network even if your half way around the world and the ps3 has to be turned on and n remote play mode and no you can't acess the psp from the ps3 or play games on the ps3 from the psp and from what i've read folding@home plays on the ps3 only you can activate it now using the psp in remote play mode which you couldn't do before

the best thing about this remoteplay is the dlna streaming from ps3.

i mean i access over 10gbs of music from my hard drive. alota pictures, and some of my ova 100gbs of video (ps3 cannot do xvid and divx at the mo). thats great for the portable device, all wireless and wherever i am.

its just great.

HalcyonGT

None of the folding occurs on the PSP, so this feature would not make any sense without a PS3. If there were a folding app for the PSP, then that would make sense. All that remote play does is allow you to start the folding on the PS3 from the PSP.

HalcyonGT

"I'm certain it doesn't take a cell processor to do some folding to contribute to the cause."

The Cell is far better at Folding than almost anything else out there.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats

From the stats page:

PS3 = 485 TFLOPS from ~27K CPUs
Windows = 164 TFLOPS from ~173K CPUs

That's about 3 times better speed for about 1/6 the number of CPUs, or about 18 times better speed overall, not taking into account the number of hours running per day.

Sure, the PSP could fold, but it would be a tiny blip of help compared to the Cell Processor on the PS3. You really would do better using Remote Play to turn on a PS3 remotely.

On your other issue, I don't think Sony is trying to leave you out in the cold. They like PSP owners and have given us a few features that even PS3 owners don't get, like picking a background color, more visualizations for the music player, and getting RSS feeds.

For those that can't get the PSP to access the PS3 in remote locations, make sure you are using the access point you use for the browser, not the one that PS3 sets up. If you can access the internet with the PSP you should be able to access your PS3.

@13

Not necessarily. Some networks block this type of traffic. For example: I can use remote play at a friend's house, but cannot at work where the network is more locked-down.