(Yeah, I’m still kicking here…slowly)
I spend so much time putting Sony and the PS3 down, I thought I should try to balance it out with some good news about the PS3.
Heard of Folding@Home? If you own a PS3, you should probably take note. Heck, your PC can run it (though it seems have some problems using it with RD or I’d be running it on my home system). What is it? It’s a program that runs and uses the Cell power in the PS3 to run complex algorithms to try to track down Alzheimer’s and other diseases. That’s pretty damn cool. And now the PS3 is up to 250k users:
“The PS3 turnout has been amazing, greatly exceeding our expectations and allowing us to push our work dramatically forward,” said Vijay Pande, associate professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and Folding@home program lead.
“Thanks to PS3, we have performed simulations in the first few weeks that would normally take us more than a year to calculate. We are now gearing up for new simulations that will continue our current studies of Alzheimer’s and other diseases.”
So while there aren’t many games on the PS3 yet, you can help solve world problems.
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