14 DAY TRIAL // If the PS3 can't make it into the hearts of fans with its super-console abilities, Sony thought of including the machine in more useful activities like taking on incurable diseases. Breitbart posted an article about Sony's announcement on Thursday saying their PS3 consoles would be enhanced to join a supercomputing network researching causes of cancer, Alzheimer's and other incurable diseases. Here's how it goes:
PS3 software will let users click on an icon (Folding?home) on their television screens, to have their machines giving computing power to medical research whenever games aren't being played. As processors in PlayStation 3 computers are approximately 10 times faster than chips in typical PCs, adding the consoles to the "folding at home" network will allow the program to harness the idle time of Internet-linked home computers to use their combined power to perform protein-folding simulations in a matter of months. This would take single machines decades to complete.
So, does this mean that PS3 owners will have nothing against letting their machines run even when they're not playing? I mean, no offense but how many people really like doing the good thing anymore? Some will probably not even understand in what way they're even helping. It doesn't matter though because even if as much as a quarter of the PS3 users will indeed click on the icon, allowing the console to work for curing diseases, it's still better than nothing. Great idea isn't it? Surely the PS3's rating will see an improvement.