• ps3

    Folding@Home Wins Japanese Design Award

    The PS3's Folding@home service has nabbed a prestigious Good Design Award, AKA "G-Mark." Since 1957, the Good Design Award has been instituted by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry to award outstanding design in industrial and consumer products. More »
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    Comment by yanogore: I've never joined F@H because what if in real a government of some country is using it to create new... 5 Responses | Other threads

  • ps3

    Impressions of Life With PlayStation

    As we previously posted, Life With PlayStation is live. We downloaded it (did you?) and took it for a spin. And yes, it's basically Sony's take on Wii News and Wii Weather — which isn't a bad thing, per se. Life With PlayStation has literally just launched and it kinda shows. For example, there aren't many cities on the Life With PlayStation globe. (Hello? Where's Dallas?) But, we don't doubt Sony will continue to add cities, though. Users can pull up news from Google, which is also kinda nice if you don't have a computer. Our one big gripe: It's somewhat hard to read the news text off a television from the sofa. More »
    09/18/08
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    Comment by bobtheduck: This is actually a front for folding@home... It's getting people who never fold to actually fold. Also, I think stanford... 12 Responses | Other threads

  • rumor

    Life With PlayStation Out For Some

    We've filed this as "rumor" because we haven't been able to verify for ourselves — even after downloading the latest PS3 update. But apparently, the 2.43 PS3 update adds Life With PlayStation for some. The Sony service shows the Earth, and users can access current news and weather for locations around the world. It's possible to even pull up the full article from the headline. More »
    09/17/08
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    Comment by reekon: So this is similar to the Wii's Forecast and News Channels. Interesting. I hope they have some "heavier" news articles, as... 5 Responses | Other threads

  • gaming science

    Foldit Makes Protein Folding A Game

    Could you win a Nobel Prize in Medicine for playing a computer game? Foldit is a game for the PC and Mac that takes the Folding@Home concept and adds a more human element to the mix. Instead of having a network of computers work through all of the possible shapes for folding proteins, a problem so huge it could take centuries for all of the computers in the world to solve, Foldit presents unfolded proteins to the player in the form of puzzles, on the basis that human intuition could tackle the problem much faster.
    "Some people are just able to look at the game and in less than two minutes, get to the top score," said (UW associate professor of computer science and engineering) Zoran Popovic. "They can't even explain what they're doing, but somehow they're able to do it."
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    05/08/08
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    Comment by fuchikoma: [www.gokigenyou.com] @kevvlosophy: Or "drill hair"... :p more » | Other threads

  • good corporate citizen

    PS3 Folding@Home Hits 1M Users

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    02/04/08
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    Comment by CaptainBuzzKill: @Frank: Frank,you are,for the most part,correct. Folding does not magically lead to a cure for cancer like some people make it... more » | Other threads

  • research

    PS3 Pushes Folding@Home to World Record

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    10/31/07
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    Comment by alby13: that means i am part of the record? wow. cool. more » | Other threads

  • ps3

    Folding@Home Achieves Petaflop

    As mentioned by Kaz in his TGS keynote, the power of the PS3 has carried the Folding@home project to a milestone never before reached on a distributed computing network - the petaflop...one quadrillion floating point operations per second. It would take everyone in the world doing 75,000 calculations in a second to achieve similar results, so the milestone is pretty massive.
    "The recent inclusion of PS3 as part of the Folding@home program has afforded our research group with computing power that goes far beyond what we initially hoped," said Vijay Pande, Associate Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and Folding@home project lead. "Thanks to PS3, we are now essentially able to fast-forward several aspects of our research by a decade, which will greatly help us make more discoveries and advancements in our studies of several different diseases."
    The PlayStation 3. Blu-ray player. Video game console. Humanitarian. More »
    09/20/07
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    Comment by stussygalore: Chill your boots, guys - the games are coming, and in the meantime our PS3s are actually doing something useful.... more » | Other threads

  • folding@home

    Team Kotaku Hits 150th

    The official Playstation Blog recently reminded Playstation 3 owners about the very cool Folding@Home project that can run on your Playstation 3. It seems that the top, or at least one of the top, PS3-powered Folding@Home teams is 2CH@PS3, which is ranked 47th in the world. That is followed by PS3Forums.com which is ranked 67th. I just checked and Team Kotaku is all the way up to 150th. That's out of the 72,066 teams in the world. Pretty damn impressive, if you ask me. More »
    07/04/07
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    Comment by Billkwando bought his tickets for Hyde's US tour: I think he meant "starving" not "starting" more » | Other threads

  • sharing is caring!

    Sony :( at Microsoft Thinking About Folding@Home

    Emoticons really are a visual language, aren't they? Microsoft hasn't even gotten their mitts on the Folding@Home project (though they have hinted at having little daydreams about it), but Sony, forever the jealous type, is already whining about it. When Jack Tretton of SCEA was interviewed by GamePro, he had this to say about the rumor: More »
    05/21/07
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    Comment by ReginaldTheSeventySecond: promotes bias^ more » | Other threads

  • folding@livearcade

    Xbox 360 Folding Project Possible

    "My console has better graphics!" "My console has better games!" "My consoles has contributed more computing cycles towards helping understand and solve health problems than yours!" More »
    05/09/07
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    Comment by gnajj: this douche looks and sounds like he's going through a major midlife crisis... more » | Other threads

  • folding@home

    PS3 Folding Kicking Ass, Getting Update

    Over 250,000 PS3 systems have registered for the Folding@home program since its launch in March, delivering nearly 400 teraflops of computing power at any given moment, more than doubling the pre-PlayStation power output. More »
    04/25/07
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    Comment by XIndalecioX: Cherrybomb, Folding@home has had a little study in HIV and Cancer too. So don't bash them because they are... more » | Other threads

  • ps3

    The Price Of Constant Folding@Home

    As a current participant in the Folding@Home project via my PLAYSTATION 3, I, too, have wondered about the financial impact of keeping my console on 24/7 to contribute to the cause. IGN has gone ahead and determined roughly how much an always-on PS3 would hit its owners in the wallet by using the Nebraska state Electricity Rate Comparison chart against the wattage required to run Folding@Home number crunching. More »
    03/28/07
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    Comment by Chucklestyle: @jernobyl: As a 360 owner, I wish Microsoft would put this out on their platform as well. I would run... more » | Other threads

  • folding@home

    Clips: Dr. Marks Explains Folding@Home

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    03/24/07
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    Comment by testiosl: I have been running similar program on my 2 PCs for the last few years. And yes, maybe we will... more » | Other threads

  • top

    Join Kotaku's Folding@home Team. Do It!

    Sony has teamed up with Stanford Unversity for Folding@home. The project is a distributed computing network of PS3s to help study the causes of a number of diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis and many cancers. More »
    03/23/07
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    Comment by TheIrishNinja: Ok, late to the party, but i joined tongiht! Ill do what i can, leaving it on as much as... more » | Other threads

  • folding@home

    PS3 Dominates Folding@Home

    PlayStation 3 users around the world have found a completely new way to kick ass online. Take a look at the performance statistics for the Folding@home program as of 8am Eastern this morning:
    OS Type Current TFLOPS* Active CPUs Total CPUs
    Windows 1511589431624489
    Mac OS X/PowerPC 7870695321
    Mac OS X/Intel 727007184
    Linux 3524924215628
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    03/23/07
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    Comment by TheodoraNekromantix: Hey people, I made a F@H team to help promote it and would really appreciate it if I could get some... more » | Other threads

  • folding@home

    Clip: Folding@home Live And In Action

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    Comment by kiwizz: @joelface I didn't have the time to do a full clip of the menu / zoom etc, by now there... more » | Other threads

  • folding@home

    Gallery: PS3 Folding@Home

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    03/15/07
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    Comment by DavidBeoulve: The Folding@Home numbers (which show the PS3 as accounting for 2/3rd of all calculation power when it numbers 27,000 to... more » | Other threads

  • folding@home

    PS3 Distributive Computing Network Hits in March

    This is super cool. Sony Computer Entertainment is teaming up with Stanford University to create a distributed computing network of PS3s to help study the causes of a number of diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis and many cancers. More »
    03/15/07
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    Comment by Danj3ris: Reading these older threads I never had a chance to is quite entertaining. Is Folding@home on the PS3 a good thing?... more » | Other threads

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