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Old 06-27-2007, 08:39 PM
tpcslj47 tpcslj47 is offline
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Default Help cure Alzheimer\'s and Parkinson\'s with PS3

Not sure how it works, just read about it and don't have a PS3 to try it out on, but if any of you do give it a try.

Connect the console to the internet.

Go to the "network" page and click on "Folding@home" to cue computers at Stanford to upload a math equation to your system.

When you're not playing, your PS3 works on solving the problem and sends the results to researchers at Stanford. The answers could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
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Old 06-27-2007, 08:52 PM
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Default Re: Help cure Alzheimer\'s and Parkinson\'s with PS3

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Old 06-27-2007, 08:56 PM
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Default Re: Help cure Alzheimer\'s and Parkinson\'s with PS3

It's distributed computing, it's been around for years, not sure why it should sound that crazy. Folding@home is the name of a project that uses personal computers to run intensive studies of protein folding behavior for disease prevention, and is apparently available for the PS3.

http://folding.stanford.edu/
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Old 06-27-2007, 09:33 PM
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I love how people get so excited about this and then don't have it running on their personal computer.
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Old 06-27-2007, 09:45 PM
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I love how people get so excited about this and then don't have it running on their personal computer.

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Congrats, your post is even more worthless than butcho's
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Old 06-27-2007, 09:45 PM
Patrick del Poker Grande Patrick del Poker Grande is offline
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Whatever happened to just looking for aliens?
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