What can you do with the application Folding@Home for the PS3? In other words what is it?

Answer 1

Folding@HOME is just a project run by Stanford University where all the computers and PS3 work together in order to do the work of a supercomputer.

Each PS3 or groups of PS3/PC work on one part of the protein folding project, and when it's done with that part, it uploads it to the main computer at Stanford, and then that computer takes all that info and tries to understand why proteins acted the way that it did.

To put it simply, the PS3/PC are Borgs and the Stanford University computer is the Mother Borg. The PS3/PC gathers the info and then shares it with the Mother Borg, and then the Mother Borg shares all that info with everyone else. One PC/PS3 may not solve a problem, but the whole can sold the problem.

Answer 2

Folding@Home (also known as FAH or F@H) is a distributed computing project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics. It was launched on October 1, 2000, and is currently managed by the Pande Group, within Stanford University's chemistry department, under the supervision of Professor Vijay Pande. Folding@home is one of the world's largest distributed computing projects.[1] The goal of the project is "to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases."[2]

Answer 3

its all those things that the guys before me said.
All you do is leave your PS3 running with the program on and you are helping stanford maybe cure diseases.
You don't HAVE to participate, I don't very often but I do from time to time. mainly cause I forget about it.