Sony plugs PS3 into folding@home

Or users can optionally set the application to run automatically whenever PS3 is idle, it annnouced last night.

Folding@home is a distributed computing project attempting to broaden the understanding of protein folding, misfolding which can cause diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis and many cancers.

In its announcement Sony claims its Cell chippery is "roughly 10 times faster than a standard mainstream chip inside a personal computer."

An associate professor of chemistry at Stanford University said he was "thrilled" to welcome Sony to the, um, fold. µ

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