Sony Reports Successes with PS3 Folding@home

Sony said Thursday that over 250,000 console owners have registered to participate, and at any given moment provide over 400 teraflops of additional computing power, which is more than half of the total available to the project. With the addition of the PlayStation 3, Sony says the Folding@home project is one of the world's most powerful distributed computing projects.

"Thanks to PS3, we have performed simulations in the first few weeks that would normally take us more than a year to calculate," program lead and Stanford University associate professor Vijay Pande said. "We are now gearing up for new simulations that will continue our current studies of Alzheimer's and other diseases." Sony says it has also released an updated version of the application, which is automatically delivered to current participants after the application is restarted.