Folding@home, Help fight diseases Options

[=BGOAT=Nicholas]

It's almost released to the PS3. Folding@home will be added to the XMB with the next firmware update (1.6).

The problem is, creating simulations that mimic microscopic, misfolding proteins takes a while. A long while. Folding@home started "distributed computing," a program that sent packets of data to participating computers for computation, in October 2000, and it took two years to calculate the initial Alzheimer's information, Pande said.

Enter the PS3.

Using it's Cell Broadband Engine, Sony's pride and joy can run these simulations roughly 20 to 30 times faster than the standard PC. If the two million PS3 units in homes across the globe jump on the Folding@home train, researchers hope to accomplish what once took them years in a matter of months.

More information here: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/772/772947p1.html

I'm going to do this. Hopefully it will get news and world recognition when good things start coming from it.



This post has been edited by =BGOAT=Nicholas: Mar 16 2007, 12:06 AM