Comments on: PS3 offers a huge help for Folding@home

By: butlimous

butlimous — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:24:13 +0000

Thanks for the info!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:24:57 +0000

@juju, yea, except for the part where all the data is freely available.

By: juju

juju — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:03:16 +0000

and while everyone’s standing around feeling noble, the jerks at stanford turn around and sells any discovery they make to merck and pfizer, which will slap a patent on it as fast as they can get their greedy hands on the data.

By: me

me — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:38:55 +0000

asdfasdf: i am not killing anybody, neither planning to do it… i am just not going to participate in anything i dont have complete knowledge about, thats all i am saying! I cant verify what the hell is going to be processed on my machines, so i am not going to do it. Government and its slaves are everywhere these days… you must be really naive or stupid if you dont know it and dont see it… this virtual supercomputer in hands of US university is so powerfull tool. Maybe you should see a doctor for your stupidity… unfortunately, there is no cure for your disease

By: ReelFiles

ReelFiles — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:33:45 +0000

well, actually the Cell processor is based on Power architecture like the old Mac chips were, so you wouldn’t be able to run windows on it natively.

I fold on 5 different machines 24/7, it’s my way of giving back, and I barely notice a difference when using my PCs while folding. Then again I built some high-end rigs, not some Dell bullsh!t.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=ReelFiles

By: D.A.R.K.

D.A.R.K. — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:35:12 +0000

the reason why intel and such hasent done it yet well for one they will and for 2 there isnt really a need yet for the mass public sony is trying to be ahead of time why could make or break them in this case this is for a good cause

and also the “chink” who shot up v tech did it for political reasons even though it was a lil extreme

By: loco

loco — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:13:45 +0000

@groove – agreed, and in addition I personally don’t care if new drugs or medicines even come out of the results, as long as research is being done that expands human knowledge (and it doesn’t hurt anybody/thing to do it) then who knows what benefits it may have in the future. We’re still only just starting to understand the practical applications of research that was done over a hundred years ago, so I’m glad to be able to contribute my effort with a few cents worth of electricity having my PC run at >90% load when it would otherwise be doing nothing, just for this type of project.

By: me

me — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:27:25 +0000

with this huge computing power, who knows if ppl are not cracking some passwords for FBI or something… fucked up government can get anywhere these days… and i am sure they can hide it as some protein calculations very easily

By: MBT

MBT — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:39:41 +0000

wow, theres an advantage to the ps3 now?

By: mark

mark — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:05:06 +0000

Downloading the update right now. It even looks awesome!

By: GR

GR — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:51:26 +0000

Provides an interesting argument as to the energy inefficiency of folding at home. That said, people are far more willing to give their PS3 computing time rather than hard $, despite the former consuming the latter.
http://www.xyhd.tv/2007/04/rants-and-tangents/folding-at-home-is-killing-the-planet/

By: M®.E

M®.E — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:49:10 +0000

Ps3 ftw

By: DA

DA — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:19:03 +0000

Here are some:
http://folding.stanford.edu/results.html

By: bballer

bballer — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:55:21 +0000

I think that this is a great initiative and I’m glad that the purpose of such an expensive entertainment system can be extended with good causes like this one. In this way gamers can help on creating a solution for a lot of problems.
By the way, nice post. I wasn’t aware of this until now.

By: Gr00vE

Gr00vE — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:07:14 +0000

What results are you expecting?

Protein structures don’t really give “results” they just help gain a better understanding of interactions or drug design. these drugs take 15 years to be fully marketably developed.

I think this combination of science research with the network of PS3 gamers is very interesting indeed. Now I will read up on it. Many thanks for the post