Smart men always check if the said can be unsaid......4th thread opened with PS3 as subject

here we go again


new update on cnn

CNN) -- Kids aiming to persuade their parents to buy the PlayStation 3 have some new ammunition -- donating their PS3's down time to researchers could help cure Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or mad cow disease.


http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/fun.games/09/18/playstation.folding/index.html

You did? That was foresighted of you! I didn't know the PS3 was announced in 2004*.

As for the multitude of people who wanted WCG to use the PS2 or XBox: the idea's not original, and it simply won't work. Sorry.

* Oh, wait... wasn't it announced in 2005? Maybe you were thinking of some other console.

So are there any plans to use fightaids on it?

I was thinking about this lately. Actually it is too bad that we don't get the PS3 on WCG. Especially since IBM was involved in developing the cell processor. It would be even better for IBM to be able to say, here, WE have developed a processor and are able to put it onto our OWN grid. So everyone can see how this processor accelerates the work compared to standard CPU's.

Obviously I understand that there are lots of different projects here now and in the future, so it's very difficult to write a client for a processor, but that just popped up in my mind.