Now I've mocked the PS3 in the past and rightfully so. From the fact it's about the size of a small moon, through the lack of decent games to actually play on it, right up to the pricetag which may require users to take out a mortgage on their house to actually get one. If you default on the payments you could use the box it comes in as permanent accommodation for four.
However I am not a fanboy just dissing the hatchback size console just because it's made by Sony. Some of my most memorable gaming experiences have been on the orignal Playstation (Resident Evil 2, Final fantasy 7) and its successor, the PS2 (Grand theft auto, Rez). So when something like this comes along you have to reconsider your position.
Basically if you leave this program running on your PS3 whilst you're not using it, the boffins at Standford University harness your machine in tandem with millions of others all over the world to find cures for cancer and other Horrific diseases.
The science is really interesting being all about protein folding which is like mad origami. The shape of the protein denotes whether they work or not and when a persons body has a problem producing the right shaped protein all sorts of issues can arise. Type 1 diabetes (The one with the needles) is a good example. However if you're not in the mood for all the spiel on their site just take it from me. Its good work they're doing.
So buy a PS3. It might be useless for games but you know you're curing cancer.
4 comments:
hmmm, surely this is totally going to cain the processor though. Its going to be running at 100% and getting very hot which will half the life of it. Your probably better off just donating £425 to a cancer charity.
Alternatively, you can run the same process on your PC as a screen saver. I've been doing it for years, no ill effects yet :-).
http://folding.stanford.edu/
Check out the stats broken down by operating system - with only 20,000 active CPUs (8% of the total), the PS3s are contributing 47% of the total terafloppage. Not bad for a "games" machine.
I'm still not going to buy one. Not until they bring out Wipeout, anyway.
People should read this.
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