To co-incide with the release of PS3 firmware v2.10, Sony have announced an updated Folding@Home client, which you'll "soon" be able to download. The update brings two major changes: firstly, you can set a timer for the program, after which the PS3 can shut itself down. The other change is the addition of a background music feature, which draws its tracks from any you've got store on your HDD.
Maximum PC: Walking into the Pande Lab at Stanford University is somewhat of a hardcore geek’s ultimate dream. This is, after all, where the real work gets done—or should we say, work units. For the various desktop systems and consoles scattered around the area are all a part of a larger initiative that likely you and I, as well as Stanford graduate students, researchers from around the globe, and consortiums of geeks and enthusiasts alike, have all contributed to.
Dr. Vijay Pande, an associate professor of chemistry, structural biology, and computer science over at Stanford—as well as the longtime director of the Folding@Home distributing computing project, which his aptly titled “Pande Lab” oversees—estimates that around 400,000 systems actively “fold” at the current moment. Given the program’s fairly linear growth of around 40,000 new systems a year, Folding@Home should be able to push past half a million “connected” PCs easily before its crystal anniversary.
Amazing project.
Amazing feature on PS3 to help the project.
Critical Gamer writes: There has been a lot of hype about the power of the Cell processor residing inside the PlayStation 3. Whether or not we will see its full power being exploited remains to be seen, but it has been put to good use by medical researchers in America with the folding@home project.
I’m sure a lot of PS3 owners are unaware of the program folding@home residing on their PS3. This little piece of software has been designed by boffins at Stanford University in the USA, and is used to perform mathematical calculations of proteins when they misfold in the human body. I know you’re probably wondering what I’m wittering on about, so here’s what it is all about.
My problem is I can't do anything with my PS3 when using folding@home if it was in the background I would use it more
Microsoft should be supporting folding@home as well on the 360. Bill Gates is always seen donating money to charity, so why not help with this project? They should try and get it integrated into the OS of PC's, Mac's and all the consoles, and have it running in the background.
I use my console for gaming and blu-rays, sorry. I also turn off my console when it's not being used for said activities.
How a couple of egos and extrinsic motivations turned Folding@home into a bloody cold war competition, where work units were as valuable as kill counts.
lls good post. Funny story. I'm tempted to start a Folding war with some of my buddies now :)
You got to give it to them....
always trying to find ways to improve things. No matter how useless the improvement may seem....LOL!!!! I guess this is good for those Hardcore Folders. LOL!!!! laughing at the thought of actual hardcore folders!!!
i know some hardcore folders, and i think they will love this, ahahhha, i might be doing more folding now because of this
except for my parents are paying for the electricity bill but they are becoming supsicious that the extra power consumption is coming from the ps3, so the autoshutdown feature can come in handy
but till this day i still dont understand what the hell that is . I know it has to do with research and thats why i sign up. It should explain what the atoms or the proteins is doing . that will be very helpful.
i was just saying it should tell you why that protein or atom is turning green or yellow. but anyways anything to help the world get rid of disease is always good. one more thing why do you have join groups ?