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New Folding@Home Features Coming Soon [Update]
Posted by T0SH in Folding@home, PS3 on December 19th, 2007
Ever thought to yourself, I wish the PS3 would shut itself down after it completes a work unit. Well now you can. With Folding@Home 2.1 will come a few new features. You can choose to automatically shut down your PS3 after a work unit completes and uploads the results to Stanford University. Or you can choose to have it shut down after so many hours. Pretty handy.
This holiday season you can now play music while running Folding@Home. Now you can entertain your guests and tell them your helping cure cancer at the same time.
Good to see more PS3 games and application taking advantage of using customisable soundtracks.
The Team Number is 55054
Current at rank 357
New Folding@Home Features Coming
[Update]
It’s now available, just run Folding@Home and you’ll be prompted to upgrade
Folding@home gets a Guinness World Record Title
Posted by T0SH in Folding@home on November 14th, 2007
The Folding@home project gets a Guinness World Records Title as the World’s Most Powerful Distributed Computing network. Mostly thanks to the powerful PLAYSTATION 3. In September the PS3 alone hit the one petaflop barrier, quite a achievement.
If you don’t know what the Folding@home project is, it’s a user-friendly application for the PS3, and pretty much every OS out there (Windows, Mac, Linux). You just choose a donor name and join a team if you wish. By the way our team number is 55054 
Then just let the app run and that’s it.
Here is more info about Folding@home:
For those who are yet unfamiliar with the term, Folding@Home is a project which was started by researchers from Stanford University. The project involves the study of protein folding which has been thought to be the root of diseases such as Alzheimer s Disease, Parkinson s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, cystic fibrosis, and some types of cancer. The aim of the project is to help the researchers to build models and simulations of these proteins by lending them some CPU power and a bit of bandwidth.
Our Folding@home team is doing very well. We are currently at rank 376! Keep those PS3′s & PC’s folding!
Folding@home project nabs Guiness World Record title, thanks to the PS3
Also the PC side of Folding@home is getting a new GUI similar to the PS3. They don’t have a ETA on the release but they are trying to get it out ASAP.
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And here is another way the PS3 has helped science.
Gaurav Khanna is using a cluster of eight PS3 units as a supercomputer replacement (donated by Sony) for his space research. More details below.
Join the PS3Blog Folding@Home Team
Posted by T0SH in Folding@home, Life with Playstation on March 23rd, 2007
Come join our PS3Blog.net Folding@Home Team
The Team Number is 55054
Click Here for our Folding@Home Team Website
Here is another website to check our stats.
It’s very simple to join our team. Once you’ve launched Life With PlayStation, hold square and select Folding@home. Press the triangle button to bring up the Options, select “Current Channel”, and then select “Identity”. Here you can change your donor name, which I suggest doing. If not it defaults to PS3. After that select “Join an exiting team” and enter PS3Blog.net’s team number 55054. And that’s it, your now part of the team. To get more points on your PS3, choose the advanced option in the settings.
Here is a nice option for people that use the remote play option of the PS3. Just start remote play and start the Folding@home app. Then you can turn off your PSP, and the folding@home app will continue. Then when you try to connect again via remote play you will get the folding@home screen. From there you can go back to XMB if you wish.
Even PC users can join the team. I have my work PC running the folding@home software as well. You can download the PC version here.
For those who are yet unfamiliar with the term, Folding@Home is a project which was started by researchers from Stanford University. The project involves the study of protein folding which has been thought to be the root of diseases such as Alzheimer s Disease, Parkinson s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, cystic fibrosis, and some types of cancer. The aim of the project is to help the researchers to build models and simulations of these proteins by lending them some CPU power and a bit of bandwidth.
My Donor name is xBerserker
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