Folding@home

But it turns out they are also ideal for things like protein folding, DNA analysis and other floating point calculations. The Folding@Home project found that they could speed calculations by 30-times by taking advantage of the GPU in a...

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...wanted to go to facebook (which I don't) I'll just use the browser. In terms of software integration thats original Sony has Home, Folding@Home, The Google Information app, The photo library organizer app and dynamic themes. Probably...

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...indicating the number and difficulty of completed work units. Rankings and other statistics are posted to the Folding@home website. The Folding@home client consists of three separate components. The client software acts as a download and...

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...the PlayStation 3's processor technology can be found in Roadrunner, the world's fastest supercomputer, and the console participates in the Folding@home project, which links up idle PCs and PS3s to perform parallel processing tasks in...

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"Sony have been into this [parallel processing] for some time, releasing development kits, and Folding@home comes as standard," he added. Folding@home is a project that harnesses the spare processing power of PCs, Macs, Linux...

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...awarded Sony Computer Entertainment the "Good Design Gold Award 2008" for our support of the Folding@home project on PS3. Folding@home is a distributed computing project which aims to understand protein folding and misfolding,...

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...Application SANTA CLARA, CA AUGUST 2008 NVIDIA GPUs are contributing over 1 petaflop[1] of processing power to Stanford University s Folding@home distributed computing application as of last week, according to the statistics published by...

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...but the problem is such that it can be broken down into pieces each of which are handled by different machines. PlayStation 3 owners who enable the Folding@home application contribute unused power of their console processors to the task.

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PS3 users can download the updated version of the application (v1.2) by simply restarting the Folding@home application. New Folding@home users can join the program by simply clicking on the Folding@home icon within the Network menu of the...

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Hundreds of thousands of PS3 consoles lend power to Stanford's Folding@home distributed computing project. Stanford University's Folding@home distributed computing project has seen its capacity more than double in the last month thanks to...

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