Use the power of your PS3 to make a difference

Use the power of PS3 to contribute to important medical research.

Folding@home can be accessed by going to [Life with PlayStation®] under Network on the XMB™ (XrossMediaBar). It is a distributed computing project that is run by Stanford University. The goal of the project is to research protein folding mechanisms in the hope that this will lead to medical treatments for related diseases.

By starting the Folding@home program that is installed on a PS3 system, you can participate in this project over the Internet. For more information about Folding@home, visit http://folding.stanford.edu/.

Starting Folding@home

To use Folding@home, you must first download and install the program. Select [Life with PlayStation®] under Network, and then download the program from the Internet. Follow the on-screen instructions to perform this operation.

When installation is complete, you can start Folding@home. For details on how to operate this program, see the Folding@home help screen. You can view the help screen by pressing the Square button.