The Playstation 3 is set to be released in November (of course, it was set to be released last year, but thats a whole different deal), but they are in the news for a different reason this time.
The PS3 has teamed up with folding@home to attempt to cure diseases such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow, ALS, Parkinson's and countless others by using a Distributed computing network.
Distrubuted networks were popularized with the SETI@home project that is still running that searches for ET life throughout the universe. The catch with the PS3 is that the "cell" in the PS3 will run the program 10 times faster then an average home computer. Should be interesting to see how the program develops.
An article about it can be found here.
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If the PS3 runs as hot as the 360, I wonder if you would really want to leave it on when you aren’t playing it.
SETI is cool
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