The Folding@Home Effect: Scientists Now Using GPUs for Cancer Research
PS3 saves lives.
Thank your PlayStation 3 and the Cell processor for the advancements of cancer treatment - following Sony's lead with console application Folding@Home, a biophysicist and computer scientist is now using graphics processing units to enhance his research into the workings of human cells.
Samuel Cho of Wake Forest University in North Carolina says that video games have allowed him to perform tasks in the space of a few months that would normally have taken decades to compute. "We have hijacked this technology to perform simulations very, very quickly on much larger biomolecular systems.
"If it wasn't for gamers who kept buying these GPUs, the prices wouldn't have dropped, and we couldn't have used them for science." Looks like Folding@Home has been something of a life-saving success for scientific research. Nice one, Sony.
Source: EurekAlert
Samuel Cho of Wake Forest University in North Carolina says that video games have allowed him to perform tasks in the space of a few months that would normally have taken decades to compute. "We have hijacked this technology to perform simulations very, very quickly on much larger biomolecular systems.
"If it wasn't for gamers who kept buying these GPUs, the prices wouldn't have dropped, and we couldn't have used them for science." Looks like Folding@Home has been something of a life-saving success for scientific research. Nice one, Sony.
Source: EurekAlert
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dave 17 Feb 2012 16:14
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keep it up next gen Sony and nintendo and xbox take a note and do this as well
