Comments on: A new way to PCR, helping to sequence DNA cheaper and faster http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070503/a-new-way-to-pcr-helping-to-sequence-dna-cheaper-and-faster/ Playing with cool gadgets in the ongoing search for the Coolest Gadget Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:29:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Verkossa » Arkisto » DNA:n kopiointia sormiparistojen voimalla http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070503/a-new-way-to-pcr-helping-to-sequence-dna-cheaper-and-faster/comment-page-1/#comment-304390 Verkossa » Arkisto » DNA:n kopiointia sormiparistojen voimalla Fri, 04 May 2007 08:29:45 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070503/a-new-way-to-pcr-helping-to-sequence-dna-cheaper-and-faster/#comment-304390 [...] (via Coolest Gadgets) [...] [...] (via Coolest Gadgets) [...]

]]> By: EEJ http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070503/a-new-way-to-pcr-helping-to-sequence-dna-cheaper-and-faster/comment-page-1/#comment-304376 EEJ Thu, 03 May 2007 21:03:59 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070503/a-new-way-to-pcr-helping-to-sequence-dna-cheaper-and-faster/#comment-304376 Let's not forget about the Folding@Home project! You too can donate your unused PC cycles to help fold proteins for science! Check out the website if you have a computer sitting around with internet access that isnt being used very often. Also, this project had some great news that related to the power of the PS3. I don't know the exact numbers off-hand, but this project has been around for a while for Personal Computers, and was running along ok. Then they introduced a version for Sony's PS3, and within a very short time, the contribution of flops (more or less operations performed per second) from the PS3 had already creamed all the months (years?) of work done on PCs around the world! The project uses distributed computing to let everyone "share" different pieces of the same problem, allowing very complex problems to be solved much more quickly than having only 1 computer working on it. Can you imagine if all the offices in the world let their computers run through the night on this type of stuff?!?!?! Too bad the penny-pinchers in accounting wouldnt let you leave them running because of the energy cost..... Check them out at folding.stanford.edu Let’s not forget about the Folding@Home project!

You too can donate your unused PC cycles to help fold proteins for science! Check out the website if you have a computer sitting around with internet access that isnt being used very often.

Also, this project had some great news that related to the power of the PS3. I don’t know the exact numbers off-hand, but this project has been around for a while for Personal Computers, and was running along ok.

Then they introduced a version for Sony’s PS3, and within a very short time, the contribution of flops (more or less operations performed per second) from the PS3 had already creamed all the months (years?) of work done on PCs around the world!

The project uses distributed computing to let everyone “share” different pieces of the same problem, allowing very complex problems to be solved much more quickly than having only 1 computer working on it.

Can you imagine if all the offices in the world let their computers run through the night on this type of stuff?!?!?!
Too bad the penny-pinchers in accounting wouldnt let you leave them running because of the energy cost…..

Check them out at folding.stanford.edu

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