Now this is sheer bloody genius. Volunteers will be able to run the Folding@Home software on their PS3s to harness spare cycles to help understand causes of diseases.
With 10,000 machines joined together the researchers calculate they should be able to do a thousand trillion calculations per second.
If that was achieved it would be nearly four times as fast as the world's most powerful supercomputer, IBM's BlueGene/L System, capable of 280.6 trillion calculations per second.
And that's with only 10,000 machines.
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This is cool, but the PS 3 still leaves me pretty cold. I like the online XBox 360 stuff, in fact I could see myself getting most of my gaming fix from demos. Wii is a must have, and I prefer portable gaming to big telly gaming.
now this is my kinda folding@home!!
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