The Folding@Home client on the PS3 got an update yesterday, bringing it to v1.3. The new features in this update include a shutdown timer and background music player. Both are fairly nice.
The shutdown timer is great if you want to let your PS3 fold overnight, but don’t want to leave it on a really long time. Go to Settings, select Automatic Shutdown, and select After Current. Once your folding is done, it’s off to bed for your PS3.
The music player is someone gimped in that you have to select a music channel to play instead of individual artists, tracks or albums. Your choices here are Recommended, Shuffle All, Energetic, Calm, Dramatic, Upbeat, or Electronic. You can change tracks by holding X and hitting left or right on the d-pad. If you want to change channels, hold X and hit up or down on the d-pad. The channels are automatically populated by music you have stored on your PS3 hard drive. How it determines what goes in what channel is some kind of voodoo.
Make sure to join the Loot Ninja Folding@Home team while you’re at it. We’re team #84275.
If you participate in Folding@Home either on your computer or your PS3, fire up your client and join the Loot Ninja team.
It’s long overdue that we created this team, but it’s not here. Our team number is 84275.
On the PC, right click to configure a client program to set your team number. On the PS3, hit Triangle, go down to Identity, and Join an Existing Team.
Let’s see how well we can do to help out Stanford.
If you launch your Folding@Home client on your PS3 today, you’ll be greeted with an update to version 1.2. The following updates are included:
- Support for Remote Play for PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable)
- Visibility of Donor Locations on the Globe
- Support for Additional Protein Simulations
- Advanced Participation Mode
- Screensaver Mode
- Link to Project Description
Check out here for a full description of the updates. And if you have a PS3 and aren’t running Folding@Home, you need to jump on the bandwagon 
Today there will be an update for the widely successful Folding@Home client for the PS3. The update will allow the PS3 to work even harder on work units to complete them faster.
From the press release:
“Thanks to PS3, we have performed simulations in the first few weeks that would normally take us more than a year to calculate. We are now gearing up for new simulations that will continue our current studies of Alzheimer’s and other diseases.”
An update to version 1.1 will be available tomorrow. The updated software features an improvement in folding calculation speeds, increased visibility of user location on the globe and the ability for users to create longer donor or team names.
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