Sony har besluttet at droppe deres ambitiøse og ganske velmenende Folding@home i forbindelse med den kommende firmware-update til Playstation 3, der skulle lande senere på måneden. Sony giver ikke nogen grund til, hvorfor understøttelsen ryger. De fortæller blot, at det ikke længere vil være muligt at deltage i Stanford Universitys projekt. Folding@home gør det muligt at lade din Playstation 3 levere rå regnekraft til forskningen af sygdomme som Alzheimers og kræft. Ifølge Sony har mere end 15 millioner Playstation 3-ejere været med i projektet, og der er “doneret” mere end 100 millioner timer til Folding@home.
By the beginning of November, 2012, we will terminate the services available through the Life with PlayStation application. In conjunction with the termination, we will stop offering the Life with PlayStation application to new users with the 4.30 update. This includes the conclusion of our participation with Stanford University’s Folding@home, a distributed computing project aimed at understanding protein folding, misfolding and studying the causes of a variety of diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and cancers.
We’d like to thank the more than 15 million users that have participated in the program since it started on PS3 in 2007. PS3 users have donated in total more than 100 million computation hours to the Folding@home project to date, and as a result, contributed greatly to Stanford University’s Alzheimer’s disease research. Considering the contribution PS3 has made to the project, we decided the termination as a result of discussions with Stanford University.


























De har sikkert fundet kuren mod de nævnte sygdomme. Sony har så, på grund af deres tro støtte, fået det at vide først