Folding On Your P S 3 Get Busy Soon !, Use your gaming system to Help Humanity

http://www.scei.co.jp/folding/en/

http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/070315e.pdf

http://www.mercurynews.com/lifestyle/ci_5440897

This is great Carl !! Pinning topic and changing title to make more clear to new folks that may hit our forum :cheers: :cheers:

The firmware update isn't available yet, but I think it may be available later today by the sound of things.

Does that mean I have to run out to buy a PS3 :lol: Read the release notes ! Good stuff indeed, typical WU completes in 1 HR ,, You will have to let us know how it goes also PPWU for this timeframe :YES:

Still need that laptop first :smiles:

Carl

So the yellow dog linux isn't necessary to run the client?

I can't image yellow dog being required. Should just be a thing you get from the PS3 download center...thing....

"PS3 HOME" what a joke.

so this is that firmware thingy?
well that would answer the small memory that comes with it


maybe you could get your firmware upgraded????
to offset your small memory?

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I thought you said Marty only had software, no [H]ardware! :lol:

I thought you said Marty only had software, no [H]ardware! :lol:

ZING.....poor marty

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Big meanies!

little weanie :o

PS3 Folding@home with 1.6 update
New firmware upgrade will link PlayStation 3s to Stanford-run distributed-computing project researching cancer, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's causes.
By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot
Posted Mar 15, 2007 6:02 pm ET
At last year's Tokyo Game Show, Ken Kutaragi gave a keynote address that contained little new PlayStation 3 information. It did, however, outline how the PS3's massive computing power would be used for an altruistic endeavor called the Folding@home Project.

Organized by Stanford University, the Folding@home Project is similar to the University of California-Berkeley's SETI@home project. The latter effort uses idling PCs linked to the Web as a "virtual supercomputer" to help the SETI Project search for extraterrestrial life.

The Folding@home Project will do something similar. It will integrate idling, online PS3s into a distributed-computing project studying the causes of various diseases. Among the ailments under investigation are Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis, and various cancers.

"Millions of users have experienced the power of PS3 entertainment. Now they can utilize that exceptional computing power to help fight diseases," Masayuki Chatani, Sony Computer Entertainment's chief technical officer, said in a statement. "In order to study protein folding, researchers need more than just one supercomputer, but the massive processing power of thousands of networked computers. Previously, PCs have been the only option for scientists, but now, they have a new, more powerful tool--[the] PS3."

Folding@home Project functionality will be included in the 1.6 PS3 firmware update, which is due out at the end of the month. After installing the update, PS3 owners who wish to join the project will be able to find the Folding@home Project under the network menu of the PS3's XrossMediaBar (XMB). PS3s will only join the Folding@home Project network when in an idle state while connected to the Internet.

Where's Carl?......1.6 is out

Carl was busy getting the PS3 folding! :smiles:

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