PS3 saves lives
Today Folding@home was released for the PS3. If you didn’t know, Folding@home is a distributed computing project run by Stanford University where people can contribute their spare computer processing power to simulate the folding of proteins to help better understand diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and various cancers. The research done in this project may one day lead to a cure for diseases that take the lives of so many people each year.
This project has been available for computers for quite some time now, but today it was introduced for the Sony PlayStation 3. Checking out the stats, in less than one day, the PS3 has already surpassed the Windows platform in terms of TFLOPS power. In one day, 7,000 PS3s have achieved what 150,000 PCs have been doing for years. I think that’s very impressive! It shows just how powerful the PS3 really is with its Cell processor. It makes me proud to own a PS3! 
I hope this research will pay off greatly one day.
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Comments
Haha, what a great reason to buy a PS3 :p
Posted by: Jacques | March 26th, 2007 11:27
Yes, it plays games, runs Linux, and cures cancer… what more could you need?
Posted by: Allen | March 26th, 2007 23:38
A price drop
Posted by: Ken | March 27th, 2007 19:24
Heh, well that too.
Posted by: Allen | March 27th, 2007 22:15