Contribute computer power to find the Cures

[AlSi]

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl.../09/20/1718242

The official PlayStation blog is reporting that the petaflop barrier has been crossed by the nodes participating in the Folding @ Home project. The article talks about what this means for computer science, and why this awesome amount of computational power was reachable.

"Just six months after we launched the program, nearly 600,000 PS3 users have registered. Second, we made several improvements to the application (v 1.2) that helped make the computations more accurate and enabled us to squeeze even more work out of each and every PS3 console -- we went from 450 teraflops to 800 teraflops. These factors, combined with the contribution from all the other platforms, helped us cross the barrier, which happened sometime over the weekend."

[animosity]

been running folding@home off and on for years now. its cool to see how much the ps3 is contributing. glad i run my ps3 at least once a night to help out

[MortsAccord]

I'm on the bandwagon now.

[reallyman]

thats cool