Sony recently announced that their PlayStation 3 gaming console will "be enhanced to join a supercomputing network researching causes of cancer, Alzheimer's and other incurable diseases." through use of a software update that permits unused clock cycles of the PlayStation to be integrated into an internet driven network of connected systems PhysOrg. This is similar to the well known SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project where 3 million systems are linked up via the BONIC software available at SETI. Compute power as a utility will become reality as grid systems like IBM Grid and gridcomputing proliferate because number crunching to solve complex problems will be used as needs warrant.
"And so it goes" - K.V.
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