Life With Playstation..

[Harpham]

What on earth is this???

(Especially that Folding Home thing)

:S

 

[Ste Hughes]

????

 

[oska]

It's a research project by Stanford Uni, been going for years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home.

 

[Harpham]

It's a research project by Stanford Uni, been going for years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home.

Yea I saw that earlier (thought id best google it before anyone on here says to), but why is it on the playstation? :S Confusing stuff... All it seems to do is download something or something like that? :S

 

[Ste Hughes]

Yea I saw that earlier (thought id best google it before anyone on here says to), but why is it on the playstation? :S Confusing stuff... All it seems to do is download something or something like that? :S

its a network of computers to make a epic computer system for cancer reasearch

its just using your ps3 computing power

 

[Brazo]

Yea I saw that earlier (thought id best google it before anyone on here says to), but why is it on the playstation? :S Confusing stuff... All it seems to do is download something or something like that? :S

Because the PS3 is uber fast, with its 8 core processor at completing the cycles.

 

[Woodentop]

Because the PS3 is uber fast, with its 8 core processor at completing the cycles.

It is a single core cell processor with 8 SPE's, but the bottom line is that it can crunch numbers like crazy!.