En concreto el cáncer.
PlayStation 3 to Help Cure Cancer
Partnership with Folding@home will use idle Cell Processors to model protein panacea.
Éste es el procedimiento:
"Thanks to new computational methods that are able to use streaming processors like the PS3's Cell, and before long, ATI graphics cards, Folding@home believes it will be able to take its research to a higher order of magnitude. The Cell Processor is expected to perform calculations for Folding@home on the scale of 100 gigaflops. With 10,000 PS3s churning away, Folding@home expects Petaflop performance (that's a Quadrillion--1,000,000,000,000,000—floating point operations a second). There are currently only 200,000 actively processing Folding@home computers today, which means an influx of millions of PS3s capable of joining the project could massively expand the capabilities of the Folding@home, enough so that project leaders are now considering expanding their simulations to study Alzheimer's and Huntington's Diseases and other forms of cancer.
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No entiendo muy bien el procedimiento, solo que cuando no estemos jugando, la capacidad de cálculo desperdiciada se podra utilizar para esta tarea. Si alguien sabe exactamente como va o sabe traducir el texto, adelante.