Folding@home

[Fine Vol]

PS3 has folding home. What is it?

 

[rpvol]

I think (if you choose to turn it on) all the PS3's link up to help find cures for certain diseases or something along those lines.

 

[DrRosenRosen]

Search wiki. It's combined computing power for research purposes.

 

[rwemyss]

I think (if you choose to turn it on) all the PS3's link up to help find cures for certain diseases or something along those lines.

Approximately correct. It is a project where they are calculating how proteins fold. Folding@home allows them to use your processing power over the internet to perform calculations.

Folding@home - Main

You can install the software on any computer, the PS3 just comes with it pre-installed.

 

[Fine Vol]

Do you men FOLD HOME?

 

[rwemyss]

Do you men FOLD HOME?

The project is called Folding@home, FV. If Sony can't do that right when they put it in the PS3, that isn't my problem.

 

[SWIL]

PS3 has folding home. What is it?

It's when you lose your entire house in a high stakes poker game.