1 Million PS3 Users Fold@Home

February 5th, 2008 by Rajiv Ashrafi in News, PlayStation 3, Software

Sony has announced that it has gotten over one million PS3 users to participate in the Folding@Home project since its launch on March 7, 2007. The program allows PS3 users to donate the power of the Cell processor to the project, contributing to studying protein folding and related diseases, including Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.

Vijay Pande, associate professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and Folding@home project lead, commented, “Since partnering with SCEI, we have seen our research capabilities increase by leaps and bounds through the continued participation of Folding@home users. Now we have over one million PS3 users registered for Folding@home, allowing us to address questions previously considered impossible to tackle computationally, with the goal of finding cures to some of the world’s most life-threatening diseases. We are grateful for the extraordinary worldwide participation by PS3 and PC users around the globe.”

If you have a PS3 and it’s lying around, use it to do some good to the world.

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