White or Black, who really gives a hoot what color the Microsoft Xbox 360 comes in?
In another news, soon gamers will have another reason to leave their Sony PlayStation 3 console on at all times. Not just to play cool games on, but to allow the Folding@home project at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California to use the machine’s powerful Cell processor to study how proteins assemble and find cures for diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and cancer.
The Folding@home project links thousands of computers over the internet. A small program runs whenever your computer is idle, and the combined distributed processing power of the networked computers allows solving complex problems in a fraction of the time it would normally take to work through.
Since the PS3 Cell chip is 20 to 30 times faster than an average home computer, the PS3 community can really do some good while having lots of fun at the same time.
The Folding @ home softare will be available for general download starting Thursday. Download it and do some good.
References:
- CBC.ca
- Folding@home at Stanford University
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