writes: As seen on Gamasutra.com yesterday, the Folding@home project released the v1.2 update to the powerful PlayStation 3 client.
The highlights are:
- New functionality like PSP remote play
- New simulations and visuals
- New screensaver mode that increases the performance of the simulations and lets the PlayStation 3 consume "slightly less power"
- New "Advanced Participation Mode"
Said SCEA CEO Jack Tretton, "We take a lot of pride in the fact that more than half a million PS3 users worldwide have dedicated a portion of their machine's capabilities towards helping Stanford University and their Folding@home team research many of the diseases that inflict our society today.
Sony says that in the five months since the application's release more than a half million users have downloaded the program and delivered "up to 600 teraflops", bringing the project "closer to its goal of achieving a petaflop, an important milestone."
Simply stop and restart the client to prompt the update.
-7im
