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250,000 PS3s Folding@Home
GamesIndustry.biz reports that over 250,000 users have signed up for the Folding@Home project on the PlayStation 3. The sheer number of users has resulted in '700 teraflops in a single moment', most of which is provided by PS3 users. "'The PS3 turnout has been amazing, greatly exceeding our expectations and allowing us to push our work dramatically forward,' said Vijay Pande, associate professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and Folding@home program lead. 'Thanks to PS3, we have performed simulations in the first few weeks that would normally take us more than a year to calculate. We are now gearing up for new simulations that will continue our current studies of Alzheimer's and other diseases.'" The article notes the software has a new update with some refined functionality and faster processing.
Yeah, maybe they got some free publicity from making it possible to join Folding@home, but do you honestly believe that that's a negative thing?
People will use the information gained by folding@home to make billions of dollars. The idea that this is some sort of charity is a sham. This is scientific research that will eventually be patented, hoarded, and sold back to you at tremendous profit. You could at least get your expenses paid for.
Yes. The data will be available to everyone especially other Stanford researchers to develop and patent drugs and treatments and sell them back to us at extraordinary profit, while you don't even get a coupon for a free day's stay in the hospital.
The folding at home people might have created this for all the right reasons, but in the end it will be used to extort money from us. This is the way our medical system works.