PlayStation 3 to join Folding@Home for Cure@PS3

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Michael @ Aug 23rd 2006 7:33PM

Um...pretty sure neither Folding@Home nor Cure@PS3 are charities....sorry :-p

That being said, basically what either program does is it has your computer or PS3 crunch data. This is called "distributed computing."

Instead of employing some massively expensive supercomputers to do the work, distributed computing allows members of the public to help scientific endeavors such as this (or SETI@Home, etc.) to analyze scientific data using thousands of everyday PCs (and now PS3s).

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