PS3 versus disease
Sony officials and Stanford University’s Folding@home project met on the college campus and announced that the PS3 program that will crunch data on disease is set to go live at the end of this month.
“It’s really a perfect fit for us because it lets us apply our technological advancement to something that is so good and so important,” said Richard Marks, senior researcher with Sony Computer Entertainment America. “One of the main reasons we’re here today is just kind of a call to action to PlayStation 3 owners.”
The Folding@home project fights against Alzheimer’s, cancer, Parkinson’s and cystic fibrosis. The folding program will use the PS3’s cell broadband engine which can run these simulations roughly 20 to 30 times faster than the standard PC. If a couple million PS3’s across the world run the Folding@home program, researchers will accomplish what once took them years will only take months. That is amazing…
If you plan on running the Folding@home on your PS3, join our team which is team #54412.
Source: ps3.ign.com
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