TAG | PlayStation 3's science project: Folding@Home |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 16 March 2007 | |
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The PS3 client will be available later this month as a firmware upgrade from Sony. It will provide a 3D visual representation of the simulation in real time, with the point-of-view adjustable via the game controller. Work is also being done to harness the power of ATI graphics processing units. Taken together, the two developments will reduce simulation times from years to months or even weeks. According to project founder Associate Professor Vijay Pande, the participation of 10,000 PS3 owners would double the processing power of the 200,000 PCs currently crunching numbers for researchers. Since the software is being backed by Sony, it seems reasonable that participation rates may be higher than among PC owners. The best known distributed processing project is SETI@home, which analyses data from radiotelescopes looking for signs of intelligent life in space.{moscomment}
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