In agreement with the published in the spanish Diario Medico for
Daniel Arbós 15/12/2006, a team of the Unit of Investigation in Biomedical Computer science (GRIB) of the Municipal Institute of Medical Investigation (IMIM) in Barcelona (Spain) uses the processor of the PlayStation 3 for their works in the simulation of proteins.
As Gianni De Fabritiis, promoter of the idea, explains "the processor of this console is extremely powerful. The maximum number of operations that is able to do are 10 times superior to any regular processor. If besides one adapts the technology, some applications can go fifty times faster than with a conventional puter ". One only PlayStation can do the work of 50 computers, with important advantages as for "cost, facility of maintenance, occupation of space or expense of electricity ". Perhaps this seems too much to get credit, but it is not bad in order that they give a couple to them...
They say also that the GRIB has been the first group in applying this technology to their research, but Stanford's University is preparing an initiative similar to the program SETI (of looking for signs in the universe of foreign life) in order that any owner of a PlayStation disburdens a software that allows that there should be used part of the capacity of his/her device for the investigation.
I already have another argument to convince my wife that the PS is to come this year…
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