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- Outline
Stanford University's Folding@home? project, launched in October 2000, harnesses a distributed computing network with more than one million participating processors worldwide to study protein folding and provide data useful in developing treatment for related diseases. Sony Computer Entertainment supports the project through the global PlayStation Network and the processing power of the Cell Broadband Engine? in PlayStation 3. By helping users visualize how they are participating, Folding@home for PlayStation3 stimulates interest in the program and encourages PlayStation owners to join.
- Producer
Executive Vice President and CTO, Technology Platform and Vice President, Strategy Planning Department, SCEI, Masayuki Chatani
- Director
Vice President, Corporate Design Center, SCEI, Yuko Wada
- Designer
Chief, Corporate Design Center, SCEI, Ryuji Nakayama/ Corporate Design Center, SCEI, Takahiro Fujii/ Director, Corporate Design Center, SCEI, Shuji Hiramatsu
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- Already in service/use
- 2007/3/15