I am down in Orlando for a conference. Justin and I are getting ready for the evening of poker and drinking 🙂
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PS3 and the folding project…
Sony has bragged for a while about the power of their cell processor in the PS3. Well, it’s really showing it’s power with the Folding Project from Stanford. If you don’t know anything about this project take a moment to read about it here. It’s really amazing what can be achieved with this technology – cures for cancer, parkinson’s, etc.
Have a look at the stats page to see just how much more the PS3’s are doing that all the personal computers out there! Don, Sam and I are on a team for fun, there are a lot of them out there for Engadget, Joystiq and other communities but Don started one to honor his Wife’s Aunt which is a good team for me to be on 🙂
The stat that really got me in all of this was:
“It’s amazing that not only do proteins self-assemble — fold — but they do so amazingly quickly: some as fast as a millionth of a second. While this time is very fast on a person’s timescale, it’s remarkably long for computers to simulate.
In fact, it takes about a day to simulate a nanosecond (1/1,000,000,000 of a second).”
Now that’s a lot of calculations!! If you have a PS3 run it overnight for a good cause!
Only a month late! Brian, Joel and I had a great time. Justin, you were missed! There is alway next year (Joel is thinking Toronto)
Click on any of the following pictures to enter the album. The last is my favorite, too bad it’s blurry 🙁
Brian, Justin, and I had a great time at the game tonight. We even got to hang with Don before the game which was great. The Wolves lost in double OT to the Pistons but Foye continues to show how much of a stud he is. I hope we get to watch him here for years to come!
