http://folding.stanford.edu/Folding@Home was released in a recent firmware update for ps3. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases.
The first day of having this program to run on PS3's around the world the combined teraFLOPs of matched that of Windows PCs combined efforts since 2000 when the project began.
1PetaFLOP is going to happen
Fox News reported F@H on PS3 on TV "PlayStation used to help fuel research." (Under Technology in the upper right side of the screen. It's a video you can't link to :\)
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Mar21/ ... s,00.html#Ken Kutaragi, April 2005 - Interview in Nikkei ElectronicsQuote:
The network of today still remains a means to access information. The time will come, however, when the network itself becomes a computer. So far, we have pursued how to improve the performance of a single chip, but we are now becoming aware of the limits that loom there. Once you suppose that the network is a computer, what you have to do is to improve the computing performance of the network as a whole. This is s paradigm shift. Be it on-chip, on-board, or on-network, chips will be infinitely connected -- and that is what this "Cell" is all about.
He wasn't crazy after all.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/fun.games/ ... index.htmlThe dots are other PS3s. There are PS3s in places you wouldn't expect them to be in. Brazil, africa, Islands, etc.