Help Gang Tackle Cancer with Your Sony PS3

Or your everyday desktop for that matter. Distributed computing has come to the Sony PS3 and now users around the world can put their processing power into the fight against cancer and other illnesses. Thay have a program that's free to download, runs on it's own when the PS3 is idle and won't interfere if you're playing a game. Follow the links above to learn more about how you can help. And you can also set your desktop up to do the same thing.

"Already in operation for years on desktop PCs, Stanford University’s ‘Folding@home’ program is a “distributed computing project aimed at understanding protein folding, misfolding and related diseases”, with all the information collected sent back to a central computer for tabulating and recording into the final results."

Also, read Sony's FAQ.