You are an idiot.

We’re getting off topic here. This isn’t exactly rain, it’s more like “The emperor has no clothes”.

And since you obviously don’t have a PS3

Actually I have two 60gb PS3’s. One still in the box and the other spends most of its time folding.

Ghost Recon: bought it, played it, Done.
Rainbow six vegas: rented it, played it, Done.
Resistance: Bought it, played it, Done.
Heavenly Sword: Rented it, Played it, Done.
Warhawk: Bought it, played it, Done.
Ratchet & Clank: Bought it, Playing it.
Folklore: not for me
EyeofJudgment: not for me
Uncharted: not for me.

But none of that/this changes the real results of the folding data; does it? There are more PS3’s folding than gaming, and if anyones parade is being rained on, it’s mine. I’d much rather be gaming that folding.

N’est pas?

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What has the project completed so far?

We have been able to fold several proteins in the 5-10 microsecond time range with experimental validation of our folding kinetics. This is a fundamental advance over previous work. Scientific papers detailing our results can be found in the Results section. We are now moving to other important proteins used in structural biology studies of folding as well as proteins involved in disease. There are many peer-reviewed and published in top journals (Science, Nature, Nature Structural Biology, PNAS, JMB, etc) which have resulted from FAH. Currently, the FAH project has published more papers than all of the other major distributed computing projects combined!

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In short, if you’re looking for some tangible benefit to mankind from the project in use in today’s hospitals, you may not find one. However, this is a naïve and short-sighted way to view scientific research. The Folding@Home people are doing fundamental research on how proteins are built. This project, or one like it, is sure to have tangible benefits in the future, even if those benefits are far off. For example, when Watson and Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA, no diseases were thereby immediately cured, but this discovery has clearly had many real-world applications in the decades since.

Folding@Home does not simply exist to provide positive PR for the PS3. It is useful for people to be running it. I run it on my PS3 during downloads if I wouldn’t otherwise be using the system.

no doubt about the games, i can hardly find any time to sleep as it is, and now Uncharted is coming out!

Goodbye sleep, hello caffeine!

lol

And since you obviously don’t have a PS3, have been in a coma for a while, or climbing Everest, let me bring you back in the loop. In the past few months, Heavenly Sword, Warhawk, Ratchet & Clank, Folklore, EyeofJudgment, and Uncharted later this month, so the whole “no gamez 4 PS3! ohnoesz!!” thing is way old by now.

what has this done?

It’s given a lot of people something to do with their PS3 until a game could be developed for people to play. All seriousness aside; how is this worlds record a good thing? Doesn’t this scream that more PS3 are burning cycles folding instead of the PS3’s intended use…gaming?