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Sony has teamed up with US biologists who already run the distributed computing project, folding@home (FAH).���ṫ˾�Ѿ�����������ѧ��˭�Ѿ����еķֲ�ʽ������Ŀ���۵�@�ң� fah �� ��

The project harnesses the capacity of thousands of PCs to examine how the shape of proteins, critical to most biological functions, affect disease.����Ŀ�������������ǧ����ĸ��˵��ԣ��о�����γɵĵ����ʣ���ؼ������ѧ���ܣ�Ӱ�켲����

FAH say a network of PS3's will allow performance similar to supercomputers. fah˵������PS3�����ܽ��������Ƶij��������

With 10,000 machines joined together the researchers calculate they should be able to do a thousand trillion calculations per second.��10000�Ļ���һ���о���Ա���㣬����Ӧ���ܹ�����1000���ڴ�ÿ�롣

If that was achieved it would be nearly four times as fast as the world's most powerful supercomputer, IBM's BlueGene/L System, capable of 280.6 trillion calculations per second.�������ȡ�ñ��4�����ٶ���Ϊ��������ǿ��ij�������� IBM����ɫ����/ Lϵͳ���ܹ�280600000000000����ÿ�롣

The scientists hope the arrival of the PS3 will take this research up another level.��ѧ����ϣ��ĵ����� PS3���ȡ�����о�����һ����Ρ�

Sony has demonstrated a piece of protein-folding software that will run on its PS3 when it is launched in November.�����Ѿ�չʾ��һ�鵰�����۵����������������PS3�ĵ�������ȥ��ʮһ���Ƴ���

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So go ahead and book your PlayStation 3 even though it isn't budgeted for����Ҫ����ǰ����Ԥ�����PlayStation 3 ����ʹ�Dz�����Ԥ�� �� �� After all you are after all contributing to real research to cure diseases.�Ͼ�����Ͼ���������������о��������Ƽ����� I think it is a wonderful humane marketing strategy by Sony.����Ϊ����һ�����õ�����Ӫ�������Sony �� I wish "Don't be evil" Google will take a leaf from Sony's book and make their enormous processing power available for protein-folding research.���롰��Ҫ���񡱵�Google����ȡҶƬ�������ͼ��������ľ޴��������������ڵ������۵����о���