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PlayStation 3: Medical Research Tool

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in Sony on March 20, 2007 at 12:07 pm

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Who said that the PlayStation 3 was just for the young folk? Researchers at Stanford University certainly have an alternative view of the gaming console and the really rather impressive processing power it possesses. They reckon it is a perfect fit for membership of the Folding@home project, and Sony would appear to agree seeing as it has said the next software upgrade will include a feature to enable end users to join up

Anyone who remembers the SETI search for extraterrestrial intelligence distributed computing project will be right at home with the 200,000 PC strong number crunching effort that is Folding@home or FAH for short. The project started life 7 years back and has the not insignificant aim of understanding how protein folding works and ultimately simulating this to enable discovery of the cause of diseases such as Alzheimer

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