If not you can read all about it here: http://folding.stanford.edu/

I have a team and you should join. My team number is 59951

From the site:

You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.

Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

I learnt at an early age: never geek on the org.

You running YDL on your PS3 at all? I watched 300 in 1080i on it the other night and it was amazing.

Spookymuffin said:

No Linux for me, although my next computer just might be a PS3 after reading about it.

I bought 300 on BR but haven't opened it yet. Good to hear about the awesomeness.

Too bad about everyone else ignoring this, we've got all these computers on all day and they could be doing something while we talk about giant ape handjobs.

Mars23 said:

PS3 as a full-on computer? Bit much I feel. Though I suppose I *could* do that.

I haven't installed Linux either, but I have on my desktop before. It's horribly complicated if ANYTHING goes wrong. And I know it's a nightmare to install linux on the ps3 - I came very close to trying to.

The way I do it is I've networked my PS3, Xbox360 and PC wirelessly and I share files between them. I actually have yet to game on anything other than old school MK2 on my PS3. I have no games for it, it's just my media beast.

Spookymuffin said:

I figure why not? At $500 it is cheaper than alot of machines with less power plus it would be fun to try! Needs a bigger harddrive though. Do you know how to swap drives and save your current data?