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There used to be a FoldingAtHome application for the Playstation 3 that I ran for a while. It's a shame it never made its way to other consoles because they're

There used to be a FoldingAtHome application for the Playstation 3 that I ran for a while. It's a shame it never made its way to other consoles because they're properly underutilised during the day, for me at least.

antonyh 7y ago
It wasn't great though - it didn't use spare cycles. It had to be started and run exclusively. If they baked it in to use cycles when games were paused for instance or made it switch to FAH instead of powering off, it could have been so much more.
- gambiting 7y ago
  Considering PS3 only had 256MB of ram and was using all of it for computations or when running games, I think the chances were pretty slim.
  - antonyh 7y ago
    Fair point, I'd forgotten that. If only they'd released NetHack for PS3, it would have run in the background easily ;-)
lucb1e 7y ago
> for me at least. I like how you leave room for the possibility that there is a significant percentage of people playing on their consoles for the vast majority of their waking hours :-)