Scientists hope to harness the power of Sony's new PlayStation.
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Sony announced that its PS3 console will be able to partake in Stanford University's Folding@home project. The distributed computing project has been running since 2000 and takes advantage of the unused power of subscriber's home PCs to conduct protein folding research. The results are then sent back to the US scientists to analyse.
"Millions of users have experienced the power of PS3 entertainment. Now they can utilise that exceptional computing power to help fight diseases," said Masayuki Chatani, chief technical officer at Sony Computer Entertainment.
"In order to study protein folding, researchers need more than just one super computer, but the massive processing power of thousands of networked computers. Previously, PCs have been the only option for scientists, but now, they have a new, more powerful tool - PS3."
The structure of proteins is critical to their function and yet, the process of protein folding is, in many ways, still a mystery. Also, proteins folding incorrectly or not at all have been implicated in several diseases, including Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), Huntington's, Parkinson's and several cancers.
Unfortunately, there is a significant time barrier to further understanding this process through computational research - protein folding simulations can take up to 30 years for a single computer to complete. The Folding@home project shares the research among thousands of computers connected via the Internet, enabling the results to be calculated much faster.
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Sony announced that its PS3 console will be able to partake in Stanford University's Folding@home project. The distributed computing project has been running since 2000 and takes advantage of the unused power of subscriber's home PCs to conduct protein folding research. The results are then sent back to the US scientists to analyse.
"Millions of users have experienced the power of PS3 entertainment. Now they can utilise that exceptional computing power to help fight diseases," said Masayuki Chatani, chief technical officer at Sony Computer Entertainment.
"In order to study protein folding, researchers need more than just one super computer, but the massive processing power of thousands of networked computers. Previously, PCs have been the only option for scientists, but now, they have a new, more powerful tool - PS3."
The structure of proteins is critical to their function and yet, the process of protein folding is, in many ways, still a mystery. Also, proteins folding incorrectly or not at all have been implicated in several diseases, including Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), Huntington's, Parkinson's and several cancers.
Unfortunately, there is a significant time barrier to further understanding this process through computational research - protein folding simulations can take up to 30 years for a single computer to complete. The Folding@home project shares the research among thousands of computers connected via the Internet, enabling the results to be calculated much faster.
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