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PlayStation 3 system update 4.30 – to be released October 23 – will make it possible to view PS Vita game trophies on your PS3, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced.
In addition, Sony has confirmed that the Life with PlayStation application will no longer be offered to new users from the release of update 4.3 onwards, with the service being terminated by the beginning of November, 2012.
This includes Stanford University’s Folding@home, a distributed computing project aimed at understanding protein folding, misfolding and studying the causes of a variety of diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and cancers.
More than 15 million users have participated in the program since it started on PS3 in 2007, contributing more than 100 million computation hours to the Folding@home project to date.
“The PS3 system was a game changer for Folding@home, as it opened the door for new methods and new processors, eventually also leading to the use of GPUs,” said Vijay Pande, Folding@home research lead at Stanford University.
“We have had numerous successes in recent years. Specifically, in a paper just published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, we report on tests of predictions from earlier Folding@home simulations, and how these predictions have led to a new strategy to fight Alzheimer’s disease.
“The next steps, now underway at Stanford, are to take this lead compound and help push it towards a viable drug. It’s too early to report on our preliminary results there, but I’m very excited that the directions set out in this paper do appear to be bearing fruit in terms of a viable drug (not just a drug candidate).”
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