After Folding@Home success, PS3 helps medical science anew |
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Peter Hofstee is one of the brilliant minds behind the Cell that powers our PlayStation 3 (PS3) video game consoles. Designs for the technology, which started seven years ago, include multiple uses aside from playing video games. And the fruits of his labor, including those of Microsoft's and IBM Corp.'s, are beginning to be realized today.Aside from the Folding@Home Project that has received a very warm welcome within the gaming community, the Cell technology is being used quite differently in Rochester, Minnesota. Mayo Clinic researchers are currently using an IBM Cell blade server and the clinic's own software to accelerate the processing of 3D medical images such as magnetic resonance imaging.
Germany Fraunhofer Institute scientists, on the other hand, used several Cell servers to reconstruct a 3D image of a beating human heart from MRI scans. The importance of this is that it allowed doctors to view the organ with special glasses and make virtual incisions in real time.
Also, the University of Washington in Seattle utilized the technology last year by demonstrating how the Cell technology can improve the quality and speed of ultrasound scans. "In the future, you might be operating on somebody and repairing their heart valve while only making minimal incisions and not even having to string a camera inside," commented Hofstee.
Hofstee's own PS3 is one of the 30,000 units newly lined up to participate in the Folding@Home project. Currently, more than 270,000 systems are actively helping, two-thirds of which are PS3 units.
Via Statesman
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Last line: "Currently, more than 270,000 systems are actively helping, two-thirds of which are PS3 units."
It should read: Currently 270,000 systems are folding for science, giving out 900 teraflops. 35,000 of those 270,000 are PS3 but they account for 600 teraflops , basically providing two-third of the processing power.
Imagine if more PS3 owner join in....
Did anyone at QJ even go to primary school? How does 30,000 make 2/3 of 270,000!? And stop posting stupid news will you? On another topic a colleague of mine told me this morning that Sony will release a PS4 next year which would just be a beefed-up PS3... Fair enough he's an idiot, but that wouldn't happen if news sites didn't post inane rumors and other junk!
To top poster...U IDIOT..READ CAREFULLY B4 OPENING YOUR MOUTH
30,000 NEWLY lined up NOT THE CURRENTLY...FFS
someone must feel dumb now
Well, according to the linked article about 30,000 units newly lined up "Game Industry reports that more than 30,000 of us signed up for the service.
According to their news report, 40,000 PS3 CPUs are already linked to the project"
That doesn't make any sense to me. QJ doesn't make any sense.