Tokyo - Sony Corp.'s (NYSE: SNE) Computer Entertainment unit announced on Wednesday that Folding@home, a joint project that allows PlayStation 3 computing power to be harnesses by Stanford University researchers, has been recognized by Guinness World Records as "the most powerful distributed computing network in the world." On Sept. 23, PlayStation 3 users' machines working in tandem surpassed one petaflop, or the ability of a computer to do one quadrillion floating point operations per second (FLOPS). Over 670,000 PlayStation 3 users have now registered to participate in Folding@home, which is studying diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and certain forms of cancer.

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