Playstation 3 - FAH

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Sony has teamed up with US biologists who run the distributed computing project, folding@home (FAH). The project harnesses the capacity of thousands of PCs to examine how the shape of proteins, critical to most biological functions, affect disease such as Alzheimers. FAH say a network of PS3's will allow performance similar to supercomputers. In fact, 10,000 machines joined together would be nearly four times as fast as the world's most powerful supercomputer, IBM's BlueGene/L System, capable of 280.6 trillion calculations per second.