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I was up at 3:30am this morning. Couldn’t sleep (for obvious reasons). So after working a bit, I decided to flip on the PS3 to see if the 1.6 firmware update came out. To my surprise, it had!

So I thought I’d help build some medical karma and start folding some proteins. I immediately joined the CMU team (Team 11243) - hell, it’s not like we have an NCAA Final Four team to root for or anything, but I do have a ton of school spirit.

Update: There’s another CMU team that’s doing better! Team 33403 is in much higher place than 11243, so I switched. CMU, why are there two teams here? Divided we fall and all that.

So here are some pics of Folding@Home jacking up my electric bill.

Cool visuals, very cool goal. I invite everyone with a PS3 (or PC for that matter) - join the CMU team and help us move up the list. I’ve seen some interviews where people claim a PS3 is about 30x more powerful doing these protein folding crunches than an average PC. I’m not completely buying into it, but if they spent a ton of time optimizing it for the Cell, who knows…

Update (3/23/07): Looks like the 30x power of a normal PC is true.