Folding@Home is a distributed computing project at Stanford University which performs simulations of disease processes like protein-folding. As these simulations get mighty complex, extreme processing speeds of up to 1 Petaflop are required. SCE President Kaz Hirai has pointed out that the spare processor cycles on a bunch of PS3’s are responsible for 80% (that’s 804 T Flops) of Folding@Home’s processing power.

But why the PS3? If I was a lab assistant I’d jump at the chance to have a spare few lying around.

Via GamesIndustryBiz

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