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PlayStation 3 tackles world ills
Scientists are thinking of building a supercomputing network from idle PlayStation 3 boxes in a project aimed at understanding diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer. The cell processor in PS3 consoles is great at graphics in games, but it is also suitable for the more serious biological graphics applications involved in the fight against diseases.
US biological scientists started a project, FAH, which has already built a large distributed network of PCs to simulate the shape of proteins and examine how the way they fold may cause specific diseases. The scientists at FAH want to join up the PS3 consoles in gamers' homes into the network when they're not being used. Volunteers with PS3 boxes would download a piece of software that would enable FAH to use their processors when they're idle.
A network of 10,000 PS3’s would make processing performance four times faster than the most powerful supercomputer in the world. However, eventually there would be millions of PS3 consoles involved in a network of unmatched computing power. Sony is working together with FAH on real-time protein folding simulation software and a graphics viewing interface for the PS3, which is expected to be ready when it hits the market in November.
PlayStation 3 tackles world ills- click here for article
Scientists are thinking of building a supercomputing network from idle PlayStation 3 boxes in a project aimed at understanding diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer. The cell processor in PS3 consoles is great at graphics in games, but it is also suitable for the more serious biological graphics applications involved in the fight against diseases.
US biological scientists started a project, FAH, which has already built a large distributed network of PCs to simulate the shape of proteins and examine how the way they fold may cause specific diseases. The scientists at FAH want to join up the PS3 consoles in gamers' homes into the network when they're not being used. Volunteers with PS3 boxes would download a piece of software that would enable FAH to use their processors when they're idle.
A network of 10,000 PS3’s would make processing performance four times faster than the most powerful supercomputer in the world. However, eventually there would be millions of PS3 consoles involved in a network of unmatched computing power. Sony is working together with FAH on real-time protein folding simulation software and a graphics viewing interface for the PS3, which is expected to be ready when it hits the market in November.
PlayStation 3 tackles world ills- click here for article
posted by Phillip G. at Sunday, August 27, 2006
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