2007-09-14 05:02:42 · 2 answers · asked by markito 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Games & Gear ➔ PlayStation
I agree with the previous answer. So, if you're not using you're PS3 and it's on idle/standby mode, just put it in that mode. If you prefer turning it off, then jkust turn it off to save energy.
Check this out for more info:
http://folding.stanford.edu/
2007-09-14 05:22:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When you're not playing a PS3 game, folding@home runs in the background, doing all sort of calculations to try to help find a cure for many diseases.
Nothing happens to your PS3 except in helping to find a cure for diseases.
Folding@home is like network of computers working together to be a supercomputer. If you're a Star Trek fan, think of each PS3 as a Borg, and the main computer at Stanford as the head Borg. Each PS3 works on an individual task, and when send the info back to Stanford. The computer at Stanford then processes all the individual tasks and tries to understand what went wrong with the protein folding that leads to that disease.
2007-09-14 12:12:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋