The spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be harnessed by scientists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer's.
Sony has teamed up with US biologists who already run the distributed computing project, folding@home (FAH).
The project harnesses the capacity of thousands of PCs to examine how the shape of proteins, critical to most biological functions, affect disease.
FAH say a network of PS3's will allow performance similar to supercomputers.
With 10,000 machines joined together the researchers calculate they should be able to do a thousand trillion calculations per second.
If that was achieved it would be nearly four times as fast as the world's most powerful supercomputer, IBM's BlueGene/L System, capable of 280.6 trillion calculations per second.
Read more of the story @ BBC.
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Yea I know eh & the PS3 isn't even released yet either.
YW Moon.
YW Moon.
Now, I just hope they sell a few of them. The price tag on that is crazy. It's in the $450 - $800 range, depending on who you ask. 
Save the Earth: distribute PS3 for free!!!
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That would be nice if they did that.