PS3 will cure diseases!

[schmosef]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/18/1910208&from=rss

"CNN reports that Sony has teamed up with Folding@home to use the PS3 to study how proteins are formed in the human body and how they sometimes form incorrectly. From the article: 'Donating [a gamer's] PS3's down time to researchers could help cure Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or mad cow disease.' PS3 users will be able to download a software package that tracks when the PS3 is not being used. While gamers are in school, at work, or asleep, their system's Cell processor can be used to perform simulations for research organizations. The PS3, due in November, has gotten serious negative press in the past few months, and this refreshing good news may win back the hearts of gamers still undecided about purchasing the system."

Now we'll all HAVE to get one!

[Dr Mordrid]

Cell has a new job that's more serious; Livermore Labs will be getting a new hybrid supercomputer called 'Roadrunner' that uses both Opteron and Cell CPU's.

Speed: 1 petaflop = 1 quadrillion ops/sec sustained

[Gurm]

Diseases, shmizeases! For $600, the PS3 had better fellate me.

[Dr Mordrid]

[Jessterw]

Diseases, shmizeases! For $600, the PS3 had better fellate me.

If you get one, let me know how that works out

[Gurm]

If you get one, let me know how that works out

Well that's just the point, isn't it? Until the "OneEye-Toy" comes out with it's built-in software...