Date: 08/28/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: no keywords

The spare processing power of Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be harnessed by US biologists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer’s. Sony has teamed up with US biologists who already run the distributed computing project, folding@home (FAH). The project harnesses the capacity of thousands of PCs to examine how the shape of proteins, critical [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/playstation-3-well-help-study-alzheimers/