This was first brought to my attention when some Montreal paper's weekend edition ran an inside teaser head, "Could the PS3 Cure Cancer?" Ha ha, I thought, hyperbole. But no, it's kinda true.
[H]ell, if your machine is going to burn energy when not in use, best to put that power suck toward a good cause, right? Stanford and Sony have announced that PlayStation 3s will be able to participate in Cure@PS3, making gamers' consoles massively parallelized computing nodes for the Folding@Home project.(Engadget)
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Those Canadians get their news late all the time.
Posted by Ken Edwards | September 7, 2006 7:40 PM
Posted on September 7, 2006 19:40
Actually most of us get it first and straiht up with up the big PR spin. It's just the french we have to keep in the dark.
Posted by Njiska | September 8, 2006 6:09 PM
Posted on September 8, 2006 18:09