The Guinness World Records organisation today paid tribute to the Folding@home initiative, which in turned thanked Sony for the input of the PlayStation 3 into the distributed computing project -based around protein research which could aid the treatment of a number of conditions and illnesses.

"It is clear that none of this would be even remotely possible without the power of PS3, it has increased our research capabilities by leaps and bounds," enthused Stanford University's Vijay Pande - who was enthused and encouraged by the help offered by gamers across the globe.

Guinness recognise the network as the most powerful distributed computing project ever, generating over a petaflop of processing power - much more than the 250,000 teraflops available when the project was only based around PCs, before being introduced to the PS3.

Apparently, 670,000 PS3s are involved in the protein folding research, with word on the project set to enter the latest Guinness Book of World Records. More on this soon.

By Luke Guttridge

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