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Folding@Home v1.2 for PS3 now available

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New version out today. Some neat little additions like PSP remote play support, advanced folding, and a lower power screensaver mode.

It's probably also in the official thread, but F@H could always use a bit more publicity.

Sony Computer Entertainment America Announces New Features and Enhancements for PlayStation 3 Folding@Home Application

PS3 Users Continue to Help Stanford University Further Medical Research

Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) today announced a Folding@home application update (v1.2) for PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) users, further demonstrating the company's continued commitment to the Stanford University distributed computing project. This latest update provides PS3 users with added functionalities and features, including support for Remote Play for PSP(PlayStation Portable), added protein simulations and visuals, as well as a screensaver mode which enables PS3 to consume slightly less power and increases the performance of protein-folding simulations.

User participation by the PS3 community continues to be very strong-in just five months more than 536,000 PS3 users worldwide have downloaded the Folding@home application. PS3 users have delivered up to 600 teraflops, making the Folding@home program one of the fastest distributed computing networks in the world. Thanks in part to the ultra-fast processing power found in PS3, the Folding@home project is closer to its goal of achieving a petaflop, an important milestone.

Updated features and functionalities that are part of this latest application update (v 1.2) include:

Support for Remote Play for PSP -- Now Folding@home can be remotely operated through PSP utilizing the Remote Play feature of the PS3 system. With this feature, PS3 users are able to view on their PSP the exact same Folding@home information that is viewable on their PS3, complete with the map of the world and the protein that their particular system is simulating.

More Support for Additional Protein Simulations -- Additional computation cores are now supported allowing Folding@home for PS3 to support a wider range of protein-folding simulations which further enhances the science needed to be performed to research diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.

Screensaver Mode -- A screensaver mode can now be activated via the Settings menu in the Folding@home application, allowing PS3 users to consume slightly less power and to increase performance of protein- folding simulations.

Link to Project Description -- A link has been added to the Information menu in the Folding@home application allowing users to quickly obtain additional information about the specific research project they are currently contributing to.

Protein Visualization Enhancements -- All visualization modes have been enhanced with improved shading, highlighting and focus effects, including: "Tapioca" displays the protein as a smooth surface with improved shading and depth; "Caviar" displays the protein as a smooth surface with defined edges; "Licorice" displays only the protein's bonds and "Backbone" which emphasizes specific sections of the protein that are of the most scientific interest to researchers.

Advanced Participation Mode -- Advanced participation mode allows Stanford University to send simulations of varying computational lengths to PS3 users. Because the simulations in this mode can take significantly longer, Advanced Mode is only recommended for contributors who run Folding@home for at least eight hours per day.

"We take a lot of pride in the fact that more than half a million PS3 users worldwide have dedicated a portion of their machine's capabilities towards helping Stanford University and their Folding@home team research many of the diseases that inflict our society today," said Jack Tretton, President and CEO of SCEA. "It is one thing for us to provide the technology to make this possible; it is quite another to have gamers from all over the world proactively sign up for this program to make a difference in our global community. We couldn't be more pleased with the results we have seen to date in this collaborative effort."

Folding@home is a distributed computing project aimed at understanding protein folding, misfolding and related diseases. Because the process of folding proteins is so complex, groups of computers are used to perform simulations to study the process. Thanks to PS3's Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.), researchers are now able to tabulate the simulations much faster, speeding up the research process.

PS3 users can download the updated version of the application (v1.2) by simply restarting the Folding@home application. New Folding@home users can join the program by simply clicking on the Folding@home icon within the Network menu of the XMB (XrossMediaBar) or can optionally set the application to run automatically whenever the PS3 is idle.
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Link to Project Description -- A link has been added to the Information menu in the Folding@home application allowing users to quickly obtain additional information about the specific research project they are currently contributing to.
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Nice.
 
For some reason, I get the feeling that the console war is gonna claim this battlefield too :(

Man, I shud run some F@H though. IT's been a while. I feel kinda evil
 
It's not up at the hoserland store yet!!!
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Remote Play means that Remote Play can go INTO it, right?
That doesn't mean I can start Remote Play from F@H, DOES IT? DOES IT?! THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW.
 
Nice news...but I'm hoping in the near future this stuff will hardly be a big deal to PS3 owners. We're coming upon the big game deluge of '07...starting with WarHawk! :D
 
M3wThr33 said:
Remote Play means that Remote Play can go INTO it, right?
That doesn't mean I can start Remote Play from F@H, DOES IT? DOES IT?! THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW.
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Seems pretty clear based on the press release and the basic intent of Remote Play that it's the former, not the latter.

Nice set of updates.
 
Honestly, Folding@Home is one of the coolest things to happen to consoles. Mind you, I doubt it was a viable proposal in the Atari 2600 days...
 
As I've said in the official thread, the remote playability for F@H is really great. Now the PS3 won't sit powered on but idle, while I wait to start downloads through PSP from work.

Kulock said:
Honestly, Folding@Home is one of the coolest things to happen to consoles. Mind you, I doubt it was a viable proposal in the Atari 2600 days...
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Very true.
 
Marconelly said:
As I've said in the official thread, the remote playability for F@H is really great. Now the PS3 won't sit powered on but idle, while I wait to start downloads through PSP from work.


Very true.
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It's not confirmed yet. I was ASKING if that's what the update meant.
 
Excellent.

Remote and folding at home! I leave it folding a lot so now... if I can get back into the XMB from folding and download from the store that would be fantastic.

(Assuming what I just said works.... It would rule.)
 
FYI: It doesn't appear on the store. You have to quit folding (if doing so already) and re-start it.
 
M3wThr33 said:
It's not confirmed yet. I was ASKING if that's what the update meant.
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I'm pretty sure that's what the update meant. F@H is now one of the apps that supports remote play, same as any PS3 game could now, if the developer decides so. The other thing you mentioned doesn't really make much sense in light of what they announced earlier.
 
They should really find an more streamlined way of updating the client. I had to restart my PS3 in order to get it to check for the update and install it. Thy should have it check for updates while the client is running or something...
 
I've tried rebooting the ps3 and restarting F&H... Still I'm having no luck detecting the update =/. I'm in the US btw.
 
magus said:
I've tried rebooting the ps3 and restarting F&H... Still I'm having no luck detecting the update =/. I'm in the US btw.
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Sometimes it takes a while for it to check. My only advice is to keep on doing it, i has to work sometime.... -_-;;
 
If anyone's still trying to download it (and I guess a lot are) I backed in and out of it like 20 times before it decided to update. Have patience.
 
What kind of speed increases are people getting? I'm getting a rate of 305 NS/day while I was getting about 265 before...
 
"We take a lot of pride in the fact that more than half a million PS3 users worldwide have dedicated a portion of their machine's capabilities towards helping Stanford University and their Folding@home team research many of the diseases that inflict our society today,"

That much ? nice :o
 
Cool, thanks for the heads up. I actually hadn't reconfigured my F&H since getting my replacement PS3, so I went ahead and took care of that too. :)
 
NeoForte said:
Is it just me or is the protein thing blurred and moving slower with this update? Cool new models though.
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I noticed the same thing. I can't stand to look at it now, so I switched to the world view.
 
I'm just glad that the day/night cycle is correct again. :lol That was just annoying me to no end for the past couple of months.
 
This is awesome!

I can enter REMOTE PLAY on my PSP... Turn on Folding at home and disconnect.

LATER, I reconnect via remote play and its still running folding at home.

For a test I exited folding and played a video and started downloading something from the PSN network.

After that I turned folding back on and exited.

**** GOOD JOB SONY.
 
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