sony ps3

This is crazy. You can now "use your video game platform":http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/ps3-folding-update-coming-... (Sony PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360) and help Stanford University researchers decipher the structure of proteins through the "*Folding@Home*":http://folding.stanford.edu/ project. Each video game that signs up gets assigned a portion of the data calculation--collectively it becomes a huge distributed super computer.