PS3 - Folding@Home - huge success!

PS3 News by Lyndon M STAFF 500 days ago

Well it seems all the PS3 owners that have been contributing to Stanford University´s Folding process have officially been congratulated by the bigwigs at Sony and Stanford Uni.

Thanks to the power of the PS3´s Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.), Stanford´s research has progressed at a phenominal rate.

As a kind of ¨thank you¨, Sony are about to release an update to the Folding@Home software.

The update (due to be released from tomorrow) will include the following benefits:
1. an improvement in folding calculation speeds
2. increased visibility of user location on the globe and
3. the ability for users to create longer donor or team names.

Vijay Pande, Associate Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and Folding@home program lead, had this to say, ¨The PS3 turnout has been amazing, greatly exceeding our expectations and allowing us to push our work dramatically forward. Thanks to PS3, we have performed simulations in the first few weeks that would normally take us more than a year to calculate. We are now gearing up for new simulations that will continue our current studies of Alzheimer´s and other diseases.¨

Masayuki Chatani, Corporate Executive and CTO Computer, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. followed suit by saying, ¨We continue to be thrilled with the ongoing contributions of the PS3 user community in helping the Folding@home program study the causes of many different diseases that afflict our society. As we move forward, we are issuing a call to action for all PS3 owners around the world to download the Folding@home application and help this cause. These PS3 fans can also be part of history as the Folding@home distributed computing program inches closer to achieving a petaflop - a measure of computing power that has never before been reached.¨

PS3 users can download the new update version 1.1 by restarting the Folding@home application. New Folding@home users can join the program by simply clicking on the Folding@home icon within the Network menu of the XMB (XrossMediaBar) or can optionally set the application to run automatically whenever the PS3 is idle.

Starting with Folding@home, SCE will continue to support distributed computing projects in a wide variety of academic fields such as medical and social sciences and environmental studies through the use of PS3 and hopes to contribute to the advancement of science.

Jay
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