Sony folds up Folding@home PS3 project after 100M hours

[Ink]

In today's blog post, Sony said that more than 15 million PlayStation 3 owners participated in the program, lending over 100 million computation hours to researchers.

"The PS3 system was a game changer for Folding@home, as it opened the door for new methods and new processors, eventually also leading to the use of GPUs," Vijay Pande, Stanford's Folding@home lead, said today in a statement.

According to Pande, Folding@home helped the researchers develop a new strategy to fight Alzheimer's.

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Sony PS3 Firmware 4.30 should be rolling out this week. Sad to see it come to an end.

 

[HeffeD]

Any idea why they decided not to do this any longer?

 

[Ink]

Stanford was involved in the decision to part-ways.

Other than that I couldn't find any other information. Hopefully they form another partnership with the next-gen PS. Who knows..

 

[MetalShaun]

The ps3 was down graded point wise and with much newer and faster GPU's there is very little worth folding on a ps3 anymore.

 

[Ink]

Ps3 Cell did score third place behind AMD and Nvidia GPUs, so does make sense, but doesn't every little help.

 

[HeffeD]

Stanford was involved in the decision to part-ways.

Yes, I saw that, but there must be some serious issue because I can't imagine Stanford turning down free processing time.

As you say, every little bit helps.