Folding@Home (F@H) has got 250,000 PS3 owners for their project which help in understanding various diseases such as Alzheimers better. The Folding@Home (F@H) project uses idle machines, be they PCs or game consoles, to simulate how proteins, the building blocks of life, assume the forms that play key roles in living tissue. A better understanding of these folded forms could help tackle disease or help manipulate or mimic these crucial structures. The project, like many others, tries to solve hugely complicated problems by splitting them up into thousands of much smaller tasks which makes it possible to analyse things which would take years together on supercomputer.

Sony said an update to the F@H PS3 program would boost speeds and make it easier to see who else was participating.
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