And that's exactly why Sony will participate in the Folding@home project making your PS3 a "massively parallelized computing node" for the Folding@Home project. If you have no idea what the Folding@home project is, shoot yourself in the eye and then read this with the good eye:
Folding@home is a project where you can donate your processor's spare cycles (when it's not computing for you, that is) to the incredibly complex study of protein folding; possible uses for the data including curing many forms of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, and all sorts of other diseases.
For more on this project, head over here.
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