Blu-ray.com Folding@Home Team Breaks Into Top 250

The Blu-ray.com Folding@Home team has become one of the top 250 teams in the shared-computing project. When not using their PS3s to watch Blu-ray movies, many forum members run the Folding@Home program preloaded on the machine. While you don't need a PS3 to contribute (the software works on any Windows, OSX, or Linux system), the awesome computing power of the console has contributed greatly to the team effort. Currently, the team has completed 16,305 work units, amassing 4,559,066 points for the program.

Folding@Home is a program run by Stanford University which utilizes shared computing in order to fold proteins. When these proteins fold incorrectly, serious illnesses like Alzheimer's, CJD, ALS, Huntington's, and Parkinson's disease, as well as many Cancers can form. By folding these proteins in a computer, and seeing the results, Stanford University is able to see the results, learn more about folding proteins, and hopefully one day find a cure.

To learn about Folding@Home, please visit their home page. You can view our team progress here. If you would like to join, either follow the directions here for using your PS3, or download the software onto your home computer, following the directions provided. Make sure to enter our Team Number: 56895 where prompted.

Current Top 10 of Team Blu-ray.com

1. PaulB404 (348175 pts/1166 WUs)
2. guidosarduche (313275 pts/1224 WUs)
3. BradleyStorm (212235 pts/725 WUs)
4. PowerSurg (154882 pts/524 WUs)
5. drpayne (154031 pts/516 WUs)
6. dialog_gvf (138734 pts/485 WUs)
7. groovyone_PS3 (126775 pts/429 WUs)
8. bluflu (126341 pts/432 WUs)
9. mtl007 (123133 pts/415 WUs)
10. ra1024 (107488 pts/368 WUs)