Over 1 Million PS3 Owners have used Folding@Home
Folding@home first arrived on the XMB March 22, 2007. And since then, if you average it out, around 3,000 PS3 owners register each day since then. Now it’s over 1 million strong.
In line with this another milestone, Stanford Associate Professor of Chemistry Vijay Pande had this to say:
Since partnering with SCEI, we have seen our research capabilities increase by leaps and bounds through the continued participation of Folding@Home users.
Now we have over one million PS3 users registered for Folding@Home, allowing us to address questions previously considered impossible to tackle computationally, with the goal of finding cures to some of the world’s most life-threatening diseases.
That’s great news, keep those PS3’s folding. Maybe next year we’ll hit 2 millions users or more! We actually have our own Folding@Home team here at PS3Blog.net and we are doing very well. Currently we are ranked at 345.
We have even out folded Joystiq’s team 
To join our team, just enter 55054 as the team number, for more info check out this post.
SCEI: Over one million PS3 units now registered to Folding@Home
February 5th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
That’s a big number of population. It seems that folding at home is gaining its popularity.
February 5th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Electricity is too expensive here to justify it (16.64c/kWh). And we don’t get any discounts or tax breaks like universities or industry gets, so I don’t feel that happy so heavily subsidising the research. Even if it is for a ‘good cause’.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:10 am
I’ll start folding again as soon as I get my ps3 back, still no word of the repair
February 6th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Sorry to hear that SL33PY, hope you get it back soon!
February 7th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
If it weren’t for my wife, I’d have a second ps3 already
February 7th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
lol, well you can’t win them all.