Among the excuses you might need to muster for paying way too much for
PlayStation 3,
you can now add: “Hey, this thing could cure cancer.”
Biomedical research will be the main beneficiary of a new Sony distributed computing project called Cure@PlayStation3, which aims to harness unused computing cycles in connected game consoles and donate them to researchers at
Stanford University. The idea is similar to the Seti@Home software residing on millions of PCs, which cooperate in a search for signs of extraterrestrial life.
Sony didn’t announce a launch date for the program, but it expect it to happen sometime next year, once the console has eased out of the gang-bangin' and taco-pimpin' phase of its retail life.




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