Folding@home a great success, gets an update

[BrewCityUpstart]

Am I still the only one doing this??





We've got a press release from Sony regarding the Folding@Home program. Not only does it tell us that PlayStation 3 owners have made Folding@Home "one of the most powerful distributed computing networks in the world and is quickly approaching a level of computing power that is of historical proportions." How great is that?

Folding@Home is getting an update to show Sony's continued committment to the program. It's going to give us an improvement in folding calculation speeds, increased visibility of user locations on the globe and the ability to create longer donor/team names.

The Associate Professor of Chemistry at Stanford, Vijay Pande had a few words for the program and the PlayStation 3: "The PS3 turnout has been amazing, greatly exceeding our expectations and allowing us to push our work dramatically forward. Thanks to PS3, we have performed simulations in the first few weeks that would normally take us more than a year to calculate. We are now gearing up for new simulations that will continue our current studies of Alzheimer's and other diseases."

But all we really need to know is that there's an update and the program is making history! Well, approaching historical proportions.
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[Jon Liu]

I'm still doin' this! I totally forgot the group number we had. But, I've completed I think 4 packets.

[Peench]

I'm in 2nd place in our group!!! I was gonna do screencaps, but haven't had time. Thanks for the reminder!

[dmiller68]

Last time I looked I had done 5-6 packets... I turned it off for the first time since I bought it tonight.

[Joe Sacto]

Joined the team today and almost done with my first work unit!

I like how they integrated the world map feature with real-time depiction of other online folding PS3's and a diagram of the protein.

I don't want to sound like a fanboy b/c I believe Xbox Live has the best gaming community right now, but Sony did a good job making this console future-proof.