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Written by Daniel
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Thursday, 20 September 2007 10:05 |
PS3s boost Folding@home to a petaflop
Claims to advance medical research by 10 years
By INQUIRER newsdesk: Thursday 20 September 2007, 14:07
SONY ANNOUNCED today that PS3 gamers lending spare Cell processor CPU cycles to the Folding@home project have boosted it past the petaflop mark.
The Folding@home project is a distributed network of volunteer computer users who donate their idle CPU cycles to perform complex protein folding calculations. It's run by Stanford University and, according to its boffins, Folding@home works in support of cutting edge medical research aimed at gaining better understandings of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and some forms of cancer...More Comments in the forums.
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