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.

Tokyo - Sony Computer Entertainment announced on Thursday that Folding@home, its distributed computing project that uses the processing power of a network of PlayStation 3 consoles to crunch data for Stanford University research, has reached the "petaflop" milestone.

Tokyo - Sony Computer Entertainment is in talks with companies about potential commercial application of the same distributed computing technology utilized by Folding@Home, a Stanford University project that harnesses the computing power of PlayStation 3 consoles to conduct medical research, the Financial Times reported.

Foster City, Calif. - Sony Computer Entertainment America announced on Tuesday that it will offer its next software update for the PlayStation 3 on March 22, which will add features including Folding@home, a project that will allow Stanford University to utilize participating PS3 owners' computing power for medical research.