One Million PS3 Folding@home Users

Protein Speeder Bikes don't look like much, but are very fast and can easily elude folding squads. If you see one, fold it before the protein can escape to its fortified jungle base.

There are now one million PlayStation 3 users participating in Stanford University's cancer annihilating Folding@home project. That one million means 3,000 PS3 users registering a day or two registering per minute, according to the press release by SCEA today. That's incredible. It's good to see that so many PS3 owners want to kick caner's face into the pavement.

As has been stated before, since Folding@home came to the PS3 on March 22, 2007, Stanford's protein folding results have rocketed through what would have been over ten years of research. The PS3s are currently responsible for 74% of the total teraflop all folded proteins. 10,000 PS3s can do the same amount of work as 100,000 PCs.

The Digital Monkey Box Folding@home team is proud to help the cause. As of today (02/04/08), the Digital Monkey Box team is ranked number 844 out of 102236 Folding teams having folded 3779 proteins. Awesome job!

Since our last Folding@home update, TheYakConcernedWithCuringDisease has taken a break from wandering the hilly plains and joined the valiant crusade. I wasn't even aware that Yaks played PS3s let alone had a concept of protein folding. Thanks random Yak. Your time spent roaming the hills, deep in thought about how you can help cure life-threatening diseases, is an inspiration to all grass-eating mammals. If you would like to join the Digital Monkey Box Folding team set your team ID number to 55203 and please switch your name to something other than PS3 because we like to know who you are.

Read the Press Release from SCEA

- Shawn - 02/04/08