Actually, I do have something nice to say about Sony. The PS3 is currently the front runner, by a large margin on Folding@home. Folding @ Home of course is the protein folding distributed computing project that is utilizing protein folding, in order to find cures for alzheimers and other neurological diseases. Tho, I must say I get a kick out of how many Teraflops the PS3 is computing. (at least when this gif was made.)
Credits for the image, and original story of course go to Tom writes a blog
The amazing thing about the PS3 is how well it’s bread for Folding@Home. Alot of processing power, very few games worth playing. Some day we’ll all be cancer free…and we’ll have Sony’s lack of good games to thank for it!
Too bad everyone refers to these statistics in as PS3-promoting a manner as possible, rather than bothering to list the cold hard facts as well. You see, the PS3 might be pretty damn fast at the two to three different kinds of work units it can handle - but it cannot compute the vast majority (and generally most important) of Folding@Home work units.
So sure it’s fast, but it can’t even do 1/4th the work a PC can. And as such, the Folding@Home team would be infinitely happier with 20000 new PC users than 20000 new PS3 users, even if those PCs might take longer over computing the handful of work units the PS3 can handle. So front runner? I think not.