Sony tries to cure cancer, so Microsoft thought of a comeback so they announced Halo : STD

Teh C3LL!

Space domination.

ROFL!!

It's just different.  You learn new things everyday mate :)

What type of calculations the PS3 client is capable of running?

The PS3 right now runs what are called implicit solvation calculations, including some simple ones (sigmodal dependent dielectric) and some more sophisticated ones (AGBNP, a type of Generalized Born method from Prof. Ron Levy's group at Rutgers). In this respect, the PS3 client is much like our GPU client. However, the PS3 client is more flexible, in that it can also run explicit solvent calculations as well, although not at the same speed increase relative to PC's. We are working to increase the speed of explicit solvent on the PS3 and would then run these calculations on the PS3 as well. In a nutshell, thePS3 takes the middle ground between GPU's (extreme speed, but at limited types of WU's) and CPU's (less speed, but more flexibility in types of WU's).

Wow, some people just hear one or two things and go flying off into a dream land. Here's some numbers to put the cell in perspective:

"Broken down to each unit, both Nvidia and ATI processors deliver 110 GFlops on average. PS3s are measured at 28 GFlops, while Windows CPUs, which represent the majority in absolute numbers on the network (211,978 active units), provide about 9 GFlops each."

So GPU's are delivering almost 4x the folding@home capabilities of the PS3.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nvidia-Folding-Home,6254.html

the nerds buying games ,..?

What's a game? I bought my PS3 to cure cancer.

thats lame , i bought mine for listening to podcasts.

If the next PlayStation could cure (my) motion sickness, Sony would definitely go up on my sympathy list. ;)