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While the PlayStation 3 has debatably been a flop on the retail market, there’s no question that’s it has made its presence felt elsewhere. According to Eurogamer, more than 250,000 PS3 owners have participated in the Folding@home project, which allows the console’s processing power to be harnessed for research purposes. The project now as access to 700 teraflops of processing power, of which PS3 owners contribute 400,… Read More

In a more which may mark a first for the video game industry, Sony announced last week it as has developed client software for the folding@home distributed computing project for its forthcoming PlayStation 3 gaming console. The folding@home project aims to understand the very complex processes of protein assembly, or “folding,” in living systems. Protein folding is critical to the survival of almost all creatures, and errors in… Read More