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Sony PlayStation3s to be used for Folding@Home project
via SmartMobs,
Playstation has announced that they will be donating spare processing power from the new PlayStation 3 to Stanford's Folding@Home project - which uses distributed computing to understand the effects of the different ways proteins can fold. Some of the projects they are currently working on include Alzheimer's Disease, Cancer, Huntington's Disease, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Parkinson's Disease, and Ribosome & antibiotics.
Now in 2006, we are looking forward to another major advance in capabilities. This advance utilizes the new Cell proce