I created this box in September 2007 – it first saw the light of day at vgboxart.com. The concept came to me after hearing about the PS3/Folding@home partnership. Folding@home is a protein sequencing research system which requires vast amounts of computational power. Prior to PS3 integration, this power came primarily from specially designed PC screensavers which contribute idle CPU cycles to the effort.

Protein formation is not unlike a physical puzzle – these puzzles are being solved (slowly) by mathematical algorithms. The first thing that came to mind when i learned of Folding@home on the PS3 was the obvious marriage of gaming and science – all the Tetris Grand Masters out there should get together to play one of the most complex puzzles known to science! See the box for more.

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