Folding@Home on PS3: Folding for a Cure
CNet has a nice story on the impressive rush of PS3 owners running Stanford University’s Folding@Home distributed computing client on their console. In fact, Legit Reviews also has a Folding@Home team (Team 38296) and have at least one PS3 currently folding for a cure along with our ~45 actively folding PCs! What are you waiting for?? Join Us!
Since the PS3 part of the project went online in March, more than 250,000 PS3 users have registered for the program, more than doubling the power of the network. Distributed computing refers to the practice of using computers’ spare processing power to tackle programming jobs. The Folding@home project works by utilizing the idle processing power of PCs, Macs and PS3s to investigate the causes of diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cystic fibrosis and various cancers.
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