Stanford Universitets Folding@home skal være rigtig glade for det ekstra spark bagi Sonys PlayStation 3 har givet projektet. Man har nu rundet over 1 mio. PlayStation 3 brugere / konsoller som deltager i Folding@home. Det er faktisk så mange, at de står for næsten 75 % af den samlede processorkraft i dag. Folding@home så dagens lys tilbage i oktober måned 2000. Ganske imponerende.
Tokyo, February 5, 2008 – Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today announced that since PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3®) took part in Stanford University’s Folding@home™ project on March 22, 2007, the total number of registered users has reached over one million users. This equates to roughly 3,000 PS3 users registering for Folding@home per day or 2 new registered users every minute worldwide.
Prior to the inclusion of PS3 in March 2007, the Folding@home project leveraged the distributed computing power of personal computers from around the world. Now a network of roughly 10,000 PS3s can accomplish the same amount of work as a network of 100,000 PCs, and have the ability to perform research simulations in weeks rather than years. In fact, it took just six months after PS3 joining Folding@home for the project to surpass a petaflops (*1), a computing milestone that had never been reached before by a distributed computing network. In September 16, 2007, Folding@home was recognized by Guinness World Records™ as the world’s most powerful distributed computing network. Currently PS3 users make up approximately 74 percent of the total teraflop computing power of the Folding@home project.


























Det er sgu et genialt træk der er lavet der! Fedt at man som gamer kan hjælpe lidt til
Ville dog vaere rart hvis man kunne traekke stroemmen fra i skat som velgoerenhed
Haha det ville sgu være fantastik.