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When I first heard about this, I thought it was pretty cool; it was an actual application of the Playstation 3's computing power that wasn't devoted to games.. and given that I'm majoring in biochem, it caught my eye (yeah, big science nerd here).
Long story short, when I got my PS3 back from Sony, this was one of the first things I installed and I generally try to let it run in my spare time.
For those who are unaware, here's the overview from Wikipedia
"Folding@home (sometimes abbreviated as FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing (DC) project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics (MD). It was launched on October 1, 2000, and is currently managed by the Pande Group, within Stanford University's chemistry department, under the supervision of Professor Vijay Pande. Folding@home is the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world, according to Guinness, and one of the world's largest distributed computing projects. The goal of the project is "to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases."
So, are you a part of the some 1.7 million users contributing with their PS3? And do you think we'll be seeing more applications like this for the Playstation 3? It'd be cool to see what other "good" can come from a game console.
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Long story short, when I got my PS3 back from Sony, this was one of the first things I installed and I generally try to let it run in my spare time.
For those who are unaware, here's the overview from Wikipedia
"Folding@home (sometimes abbreviated as FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing (DC) project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics (MD). It was launched on October 1, 2000, and is currently managed by the Pande Group, within Stanford University's chemistry department, under the supervision of Professor Vijay Pande. Folding@home is the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world, according to Guinness, and one of the world's largest distributed computing projects. The goal of the project is "to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases."
So, are you a part of the some 1.7 million users contributing with their PS3? And do you think we'll be seeing more applications like this for the Playstation 3? It'd be cool to see what other "good" can come from a game console.
