"Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble
themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains
a mystery""Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known
diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and
cancer-related syndromes.""You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through
out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every
computer makes the project closer to our goals."

"Now in 2006, we are looking forward to another major advance in capabilities. This advance utilizes the new Cell processor in
Sony’s PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) to achieve performance previously only possible on supercomputers. With this new technology
(as well as new advances with GPUs), we will likely be able to attain performance on the 100 gigaflop scale per computer.
With about 10,000 such machines, we would be able to achieve performance on the petaflop scale. With software from Sony,
the PlayStation 3 will now be able to contribute to the Folding@Home project, pushing Folding@Home a major step forward.