PS3 Cures Cancer?
This is so cool it made me smile at the future possibilities of distributed computing, ubiquity and convergence.
"Sony Computer Entertainment is teaming up with Stanford University to create a distributed computing network of PS3s to help study the causes of a number of diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis and many cancers." See here.
This has existed for ages on household PCs, but here we're talking a console, which may well become as popular as the PS2, and "Sony says the Cell process inside the PS is about 10 times faster than a standard chip in a computer"
Tagged as convergence, medical, programming, PS3, ubiquity + Categorized as Blog