Last week I asked Microsoft to
bring Folding@Home to the Xbox 360 to add a boatload of
computing power to the Alzheimer's fight. Well, Folding@Home isn't the only distributed
protein-folding program around, don't-cha know. There's also
Rosetta@Home, a program that
happened to receive
over $10 million from the Gates Foundation for HIV research last year.
Meanwhile, Xbox Live has been opened to developers via the
XNA Game Developers Framework
for about a year, allowing people to develop programs on their own for the system. Like…
folding programs?
When asked about it on the
project's message board, head scientist and developer David Baker
said that "we have been discussing this idea with Microsoft quite a bit over the past several
weeks; I will keep everybody posted."
Iiiiiiinteresting. This quote is from last October, so it's unclear as to what the status of this
project is, but we sure hope this rumor has legs. Of course, any serious distributed folding
program would be developed outside of the XNA framework, but it's interesting that this is how
he responded when asked about XNA specifically. Having legions of PS3s helping to cure
Alzheimer's and legions of Xbox 360s helping to cure HIV sounds like something even the most
diehard fanboys can get behind.
–Adam Frucci
mesmo na XBOX 360?
Finalmente os projectos BOINC tem novidades boas
