{"id":35,"date":"2007-03-29T21:38:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T03:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keanen.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/29\/ps3-and-the-folding-project\/"},"modified":"2007-03-29T21:56:05","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T03:56:05","slug":"ps3-and-the-folding-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keanen.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/29\/ps3-and-the-folding-project","title":{"rendered":"PS3 and the folding project&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/keanen.com\/blog\/wp-photos\/thumb.20070329-223802-2.jpg\" alt=\"PS3b-small.JPG\" height=\"201\" width=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sony has bragged for a while about the power of their cell processor in the PS3.\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s really showing it&#8217;s power with the Folding Project from Stanford.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t know anything about this project take a moment to read about it <a href=\"http:\/\/folding.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s really amazing what can be achieved with this technology &#8211; cures for cancer, parkinson&#8217;s, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/fah-web.stanford.edu\/cgi-bin\/main.py?qtype=osstats\" target=\"_blank\">stats page<\/a> to see just how much more the PS3&#8217;s are doing that all the personal computers out there!\u00a0 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&#8217;s Aunt which is a good team for me to be on \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The stat that really got me in all of this was:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">It&#8217;s amazing that not                 only do proteins self-assemble &#8212; fold &#8212;  but they do so amazingly                 quickly: some as fast as a millionth of                a second. While this time is very fast on a person&#8217;s timescale,                 it&#8217;s remarkably long for computers to simulate. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">In fact, <strong>it takes about                 a day to simulate a nanosecond<\/strong> (1\/1,000,000,000 of a second).&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s a lot of calculations!!\u00a0\u00a0 If you have a PS3 run it overnight for a good cause!<\/p>\n<p><!--Mime Type of File is image\/jpeg --><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/keanen.com\/blog\/wp-photos\/thumb.20070329-223802-1.jpg\" alt=\"PS3-shot-00008s.jpg\" height=\"155\" width=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Sony has bragged for a while about the power of their cell processor in the PS3.\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s really showing it&#8217;s power with the Folding Project from Stanford.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t know anything about this project take a moment to read about it here.\u00a0 It&#8217;s really amazing what can be achieved with this technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-general","category-tech","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keanen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keanen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keanen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keanen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keanen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keanen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keanen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keanen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keanen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}