Michael Dolan Dot Com

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

PS3 Curing Cancer, Alzheimers, and Parkinson’s

Folding@home is now available for the PS3. While you sleep your PS3’s Cell Broadband Engine processor could churn out 10x as much as your cool gaming AMD64 FX desktop. 10x is quite a bump in terms of performance in processor land these days. I would like to see a system with a dual/quad core ppc processor, a Cell BE co-processor, Linux, XGL, and every conceivable 3D graphics hogging piece of code you could throw at it. That would be ideal.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/15/ps3_folding_at_home/