Sony PlayStation 3 to help the folding@home project

Sony PlayStation 3 to help the folding@home project

Sony’s upcoming gaming console Playstation 3 is expected to hit the retail stores in November this year.

And owners of this gaming console would have one good reason to be proud off. The company has announced that they are collaborating with US biologists who already run the distributed computing project, folding@home.

This project is aimed at utilizing the capacity of thousands of PCs to examine how the shape of proteins, critical to most biological functions, affects disease.

These two groups now plan to use the awesome computing power of the Playstation 3 gaming console to provide supercomputer levels of data calculation abilities.

Gamers would be able to download a piece of software that uses their PS3’s processing power when it is idle. This piece of application is currently undergoing tests and is expected to be finished by September.