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dbcuteAug 6, 2010
See, we gamers arent useless after all!
getsaltedAug 6, 2010
f**king proteins, how do they fold?
Closed AccountAug 6, 2010
http://imgur.com/mX7vd.jpg
inajeepAug 6, 2010
f**king space, how does it fold?
pathouston22Aug 6, 2010
Meh, Bad Company 2 is way more productive. At least there I get fake ranks!
fibonacci121Aug 7, 2010
I guess you forgot the /s
hokie47Aug 6, 2010
Dad: "Son get to the dinner table now!"
Son: "In a little bit, I am curing cancer."
5dollarhoodyAug 7, 2010
Haha yeah no that s**t isn't gonna happen.
thatsmyaiboAug 6, 2010
Hasn't Stanford been doing this longer with Folding at Home?
danj484Aug 6, 2010
Folding@home just leeches processing power. You actually get to play Foldit.
formerbabbyAug 6, 2010
This is different. Folding@Home is not a game.
thanakarAug 6, 2010
With Sony removing the OtheOS ability on their PS3's this is going to take a big hit. Some companies bought hundreds of them just for this and other computing purposes because they were cheap alternatives to other systems.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
kantenAug 6, 2010
Isn't Folding@Home/Life With Playstation a native application?
thanakarAug 6, 2010
You could be right, at http://folding.stanford.edu/ I see a link to a PS3 version. I am reading through the install guide to see if anything is needed.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
Closed AccountAug 6, 2010
It's also a good way to kill a PS3. Mine died after leaving it on 24/7 for a year except for gaming time. :(
omgwtflawlAug 6, 2010
Uh, did you read the article?
danj484Aug 6, 2010
Irrelevant, this isn't folding@home.
emjaymjAug 6, 2010
Any organization who bought hundreds of PS3s for scientific purposes is still using them. They have no need (and definitely aren't required) to apply updates unless they want to use the Playstation Store or play games online, which - and I'm really just guessing here - I don't think so.
allanonAug 7, 2010
That's true but there was an article earlier this year explaining that computers sent back to Sony to be repaired get sent back with the latest update. This makes replacing bad PS3s in a server farm a lot more expensive and difficult.
ericthesalmonAug 6, 2010
This is -not- an article about Folding@Home or PS3 clustering.
Those projects conscripted consumer hardware to give the project more (silicon) computer power.
Human brains solve problems in a different way from computers and can do some tasks much more quickly and efficiently and FoldIt is trying to exploit/mimic that.
pabstyloudmouthAug 6, 2010
Where can I get a copy of this game? Does anyone know?
danj484Aug 6, 2010
http://fold.it/portal/
sndreamAug 6, 2010
Lol, should start spending those stimulus money to hire a lot of gamers into the medicine field.
hyperziperAug 6, 2010
I both play and run Rosetta@Home on all my PCs.
Join in!
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
russ3Aug 6, 2010
now if they can find a way for watching porn to further science we'll cure cancer and aids by next week
disappointedAug 6, 2010
The fact that humans with no special understanding of what they're doing can beat computers at what seems like a purely mathematical challenge is just extraordinary. Personally though, I haven't got past the tutorial yet. Who knew curing cancer was so complicated?
diggerlaterAug 6, 2010
I've played this game, it's fun but the lowest energies are really hard to get close to!
hexrrAug 17, 2010
I run BOINC on my computers http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ it basically does this kind of thing using your computer's spare processing power and stuff. I think it's really cool. They have projects you can attach (including Rosetta@home) for all kinds of different scientific computing tasks. My favourite is SETI@home; SETI stands for Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.