Sunday Night Foldathon (S.N.F) is a great way to help Stanford University's with there new Playstation 3 Folding@Home program.

The S.N.F event is simple.  On Sunday Night (March. 25th 2007) everyone who wants to participate in the S.N.F event simply turn there PS3 on and start the folding program, could be anytime you want or when you goto bed, you may let the program run as long as you want but would be great if it could atleast last till 7am Monday morning,  its all up to you since anything helps. This is to see how much help we (the playstation community) can be for this program and to show them that the feature is being widely used and maybe saving lives in the process.

Team Name: " Sony PlayStation 3"  54751 Thanks to Pure JZ for the team.  Joining this team is not required you may join any team.

Folding@Home To be Released on Thursday (Mar. 22nd 2007) for PLAYSTATION®3 and available after downloading the latest 1.6 Firmware update.

Feel Free to reply and announce that you will be participating. Thanks

Since October 2000, over one million CPUs throughout the world have participated in this distributed computing project. The goal of this project is to research protein folding and misfolding to gain an understanding of how these are related to disease.

Targeted diseases include (but are not limited to) Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and many forms of cancer.

Your participation will help accelerate the understanding of these and other diseases.

For more information, please visit Stanford University's Folding@home™ website located at: http://folding.stanford.edu

• The PS3™ system's Cell Broadband Engine™(Cell/B.E.) processor will dramatically add to the computing performance of the Folding@home™ project.
• Folding@home™ for PS3™ utilizes the RSX™ graphics processor to provide a real-time simulation of the folding behavior of proteins.
• The locations of PS3™ systems that are running Folding@home™ are displayed on the world map that is visible in the background.

Starting with the Folding@home™ project, Sony Computer Entertainment will continue to offer an environment for distributed computing applications. This environment will provide an invaluable resource for academic research in a wide variety of fields.

Sony Computer Entertainment appreciates your support.

Folding@home™ is supported by volunteers who are making a contribution to society. You can contribute to Folding@home™ by providing the computing power of your PS3™ system's Cell/B.E. processor via the Folding@home™ network.

The PS3™ system's Cell/B.E. processor will dramatically add to the computing performance of the Folding@home™ project.

Participation from PS3™ system users will accelerate the understanding of human disease and may eventually lead to cures.

As long as Folding@home™ is running on your PS3™ system, steps 2 through 4 are repeated.

Distributed computing is an approach adopted by universities and research laboratories to utilize immense computing power without the use of central supercomputers.

Small computing tasks are assigned to each user's computer and the results are collected after computation is complete.

Thus, every participating computer increases the computing power available to the Folding@home™ project.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need in order to support the Folding@home™ project?

You will need 250 MB of available hard disk space. Then you only need to download the free Folding@home™ application from the PS3™ system's XMB™ and to run the application manually or through the Autoexec feature whenever your PS3™ system would otherwise be idle.
*A system software update is required to download Folding@home. Details of the system software update will be announced shortly.

As soon as computation for a work unit is complete, a new work unit will be automatically downloaded from the Stanford University server and your PS3™ system will immediately begin computation of the next work unit.
Note: Even if your PS3™ system is powered off while a work unit is being computed, an interim result is maintained. Thus, the next time Folding@home™ is run on your PS3™ system, the application resumes computation.

Unless the Folding@home™ application is launched, no computation will be performed.

The results of your contributions are available on Stanford University's Folding@home™ website located at: http://folding.stanford.edu/results.html