PlayStation 3 Folding@home Reaches Petaflop Milestone
PlayStation 3 helps Folding@home with further disease research
Aside from powering some of this holiday season’s most  impressive games and providing playback of high-definition movies, the Cell  Broadband Engine is also exceptionally adept at medical and scientific  applications requiring massive amounts of floating-point computational power. 
 
Since joining Stanford University’s Folding@home  program in March, the PlayStation 3 has led  all processors in sheer productivity  numbers. It should come as no surprise that Sony announced this week that  PlayStation 3 consoles all over the world have helped the Folding@home project  to reach a petaflop, a milestone never before reached on a distributed computing  network.
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