The Blu-ray.com Folding@home team has become one of the top 150 teams (out of almost 100,000 teams) in the shared-computing project, less than two months after breaking into the top 200. When not using their PS3s to watch Blu-ray movies, many forum members run the Folding@home software 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 36,489 work units, amassing 10,807,365 points for the program. Thanks to our team members and a constant flow of new members joining the team, our folding speed is increasing daily and the Blu-ray.com Folding@home team is now the 48th fastest folding team in the world.
Folding@home is a project 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.
More information
To learn more about Folding@home, please visit the Folding@home
home page. You can also see our Folding@home
forum thread for more information about Folding@home and our team. You can also follow our team progress at
KakaoStats or our
team page at Stanford.edu which is updated frequently.
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.
Top 20 members of the Blu-ray.com team
- PaulB404 (466,925 pts / 1,540 WUs)
- BradleyStorm (335,811 pts / 1,135 WUs)
- guidosarduche (315,379 pts / 1230 WUs)
- PS3 (314,855 pts / 1,217 WUs)
- melikefish (253,453 pts / 395 WUs)
- PowerSurg (224,859 pts / 741 WUs)
- drpayne (219,347 pts / 732 WUs)
- bluflu (218,641 pts / 727 WUs)
- Rolo71 (212,647 pts / 122 WUs)
- dialog_gvf (203,960 pts / 691 WUs)
- groovyone_PS3 (202,981 pts / 657 WUs)
- mtl007 (202,493 pts / 670 WUs)
- FreddyFredd (188,918 pts / 619 WUs)
- VTCLAW (179,016 pts / 595 WUs)
- ra1024 (167,767 pts / 553 WUs)
- PowersFoss (158,774 pts / 358 WUs)
- ceberhart (154,960 pts / 463 WUs)
- trashxx (137,837 pts / 598 WUs)
- assur191 (136,776 pts / 452 WUs)
- wolfNaz (136,120 pts / 449 WUs)