Seti@home

[blobrana]

Hum,
i didn't ignore it. You mean didn't get my telepathic message?

(i`m a bit busy just now to indulge myself with your insightful and perponderous scientific memo, but i`ll get back to dealing with you)

[Hyperspeed]

by blobrana:
Hum,
i didn't ignore it. You mean didn't get my telepathic message?

Blobrana! I'm a pure and naeive young man... keep your dirty fantasies out of my cerebral cortex!

by blobrana:
(i`m a bit busy just now to indulge myself with your insightful and perponderous scientific memo, but i`ll get back to dealing with you)

Blobrana's answer-machine recording:

"I'm sorry, I'm currently very busy searching for extra terrestrials, please leave your message after the tone "

[Vincent]

PlayStation 3 tackles world ills:

The spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be harnessed by scientists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer's.

Sony has teamed up with US biologists who already 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.

FAH say a network of PS3's will allow performance similar to supercomputers.

With 10,000 machines joined together the researchers calculate they should be able to do a thousand trillion calculations per second.

If that was achieved it 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.

Wonder how long it'll be before there's a BOINC port ;-)

[Hyperspeed]

Scientist 1: Yes! YES! Y E S! Eureka! Let's chain 10,000 Playstations together so we can calculate stuff!

Scientist 2: No.