Running Folding (F@H) on Your Sony Playstation 3 (PS3)
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:42 am
We have got a great community here at Legit Reviews. Community members are always helping out one another and sometimes that help extends beyond the forums here on LR and into the wider world. One of the ways the community achieves this is by contributing to Stanford University’s Folding@Home project.
What is Folding@Home?
It is an application the makes use of your PS3’s processing power to solve biological puzzles. These particular puzzles are looking at how protein molecules assemble themselves or ‘fold’. Proteins are exceptionally important molecules and F@H’s biomedical research is currently studying diseases like Alzheimer’s, Huntingdon’s, Parkinson’s and cancer as well as working to develop new antibiotics.
Other research aided by F@H recently has been the, very topical, study of the influenza virus looking at how mutations might affect transmission rates of different strains of the virus to help predict and understand future pandemics. It is not only biomedical science that benefits either. Earlier this year two of the principal scientists behind F@H presented a paper entitled “Folding@home: lessons from eight years of distributed computing” at the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium.
By contributing to F@H you are helping advance biology, chemistry and computer science, you get to do your bit for the good of humanity, become part of the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world, according to Guinness, and join in with LR’s community. If you often listen to music stored on your PS3’s HDD then your PS3 could be Folding while you listen. So go on, join our team and see how high you can climb in our list of LR’s top 50 folders.
How do you Join the Team?
The first step is to make sure that you change your PS3’s F@H identity from the default “PS3″ to your own unique user ID. It could be anything but if you use your LR forum name it will help us recognize you. Then you will need to tell the F@H application you want to be in our team, which is #38296.
1. Start up Folding[at]home (if you're not on it yet)
2. When it has finished loading press the Triangle button
3. Select 'Current Channel' (by pressing the X button)
4. Select 'Identity'
5. Select 'Change Donor Name'
6. Enter your desired username and press the Start button
With your help LR’s folding team should easily maintain our top 100 position!
What is Folding@Home?
It is an application the makes use of your PS3’s processing power to solve biological puzzles. These particular puzzles are looking at how protein molecules assemble themselves or ‘fold’. Proteins are exceptionally important molecules and F@H’s biomedical research is currently studying diseases like Alzheimer’s, Huntingdon’s, Parkinson’s and cancer as well as working to develop new antibiotics.
Other research aided by F@H recently has been the, very topical, study of the influenza virus looking at how mutations might affect transmission rates of different strains of the virus to help predict and understand future pandemics. It is not only biomedical science that benefits either. Earlier this year two of the principal scientists behind F@H presented a paper entitled “Folding@home: lessons from eight years of distributed computing” at the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium.
By contributing to F@H you are helping advance biology, chemistry and computer science, you get to do your bit for the good of humanity, become part of the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world, according to Guinness, and join in with LR’s community. If you often listen to music stored on your PS3’s HDD then your PS3 could be Folding while you listen. So go on, join our team and see how high you can climb in our list of LR’s top 50 folders.
How do you Join the Team?
The first step is to make sure that you change your PS3’s F@H identity from the default “PS3″ to your own unique user ID. It could be anything but if you use your LR forum name it will help us recognize you. Then you will need to tell the F@H application you want to be in our team, which is #38296.
1. Start up Folding[at]home (if you're not on it yet)
2. When it has finished loading press the Triangle button
3. Select 'Current Channel' (by pressing the X button)
4. Select 'Identity'
5. Select 'Change Donor Name'
6. Enter your desired username and press the Start button
With your help LR’s folding team should easily maintain our top 100 position!