Stanford's Folding@Home distributed cluster computing technology received a boost when it was announced that the Sony PlayStation processors would contribute to some of the massive crunching necessary to deconstruct mega statistical analyses. The project has already witnessed some positive outcomes, making it worthwhile for both science and the public's perception of Sony Corp.
But rumours and innuendo spreading around the blogosphere suggest that Sony's not so happy that Microsoft have intimated that they want to get in on the charitable console act by joining up with Folding@Home or another distributed computing project Rosetta@Home.
Much of this PR nightmare may have been taken out of context, but as many commentators have argued, if Xbox wants to play, let 'em!
