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PS3 community launches Sunday Night Foldathon |
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Over at the official U.S. community site of PlayStation, member Xenokai posted about the up and coming event this weekend that involves the Folding@Home feature. If you're not familiar with this, it's actually a joint project by Stanford University and Sony that aims to research protein folding and misfolding in order to gain an understanding of how these are related to disease.
Anyway, the said event is dubbed as Sunday Night Foldathon (SNF), and here's how it goes: This Sunday night, March 25, all PS3 users are encouraged to turn on their systems and run the folding program. It could be anytime you want, even right before you go to Dreamland and you can just let the program run until you wake up in the morning. And that's it.
According to Xenokai, the purpose of this event is to let Sony, or Stanford University for that matter, know that their work and project is being appreciated and that the PS3 community is willing to help out. In simple terms, it's a "show of force" on the part of the community. One important thing to note is that SNF was conceptualized and is now being implemented purely by members of the community. Both Sony and Stanford have no hand on this whatsoever. Regardless, we know the two would be very thankful if this turns out to be a success.
QJ members have also set up QJ's own Folding@Home team (team number 52781) to help out with Stanford University's project. Folding@Home attempts to understand diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and many forms of cancer among others. It will be an optional feature bundled with the next PlayStation 3 (PS3) firmware update.
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And for those who say that it is killing the environment for running these programs its for a good cause
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if we can time it up globally and get a good number of PS3s online maybe we can hit the 1000 Tflop mark and make history!!!!!
if any one can calculate it in see how likely is it, these will be great
we will make the first PetaFlop computing grid in one night, now this is a real reward..
and no one else can do that but PS3 users
can any one help with that?
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yea, we should all definately do this to help stanforsd in there research. it could be a great and powerful thing. just remember though guy: IF YOU ARE NOT CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET WHEN RUNNING IT, IT COUNTS FOR NOTHING, because, i mean, how the hell else could they know whether we're running it or not
*raises eyebrow*
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You can also count me in.. ill be rocking 2 ps3's.. And I wont just be folding on sunday only, but 24/7. :)
JahRastaFari
www.ps3folding.com
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