this is pretty cool

[dumple 5,000+ posts]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070316/hl_afp/usjapanitinternet

discuss it i think its ok its kinda like when nasa or whatever was useing pcs to search the sky and stuff

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[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

www.setiathome.com

www.foldingathome.com

 

[Nukedsodapop 5,000+ posts]

i dontknow what all this is about

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

Distributed computing, I think.

Some sources (satellites, sensors, etc) return so much data to be analyzed, no single computer can keep up with it; So softwares like the ones I listed distribute packets of the data to be crunched on individual's computers, and returned to the main database.

Seti@home is Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence; Analyzing packets from a satellite 'listening' device.

Folding@home is protein folding; building protein strands from an infinite number of possible combinations, searching for workable protein strands to use in biological science.

*edit; just read the OP's article. yep, nailed it. using your ps3's extra processing cycles to perform tasks like i just explained. great way to shorten the MTBF of a console IMO.

 

[dumple 5,000+ posts]

yea the ps3 one is the one about folding proteins i just thought it was a cool good idea