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Xbox 360 Folding Project Possible

petermooreguns.jpg"My console has better graphics!" "My console has better games!" "My consoles has contributed more computing cycles towards helping understand and solve health problems than yours!"

Now that last one would be an interesting forum argument to see, and it could very well become a reality as Peter "Tattooed Love Boy" Moore suggest that Microsoft would strongly consider adding a research application similar to Folding@home to the Xbox 360. In a Q&A session with Mike Antonucci of The Mercury News, Moore tackled the subject.

Then if we truly believe that we can in some way marshall the resources of a much larger installed base of Xbox 360 owners, with a processor that's of equal power to the PS3, then you have my commitment that we'll look at that. And if we believe we can add value to solving a gnarly problem such as the medical problems and the health problems that Folding@home seems to be doing, then we'll certainly look at that very strongly.

He also mentions that Bill Gates himself is interested in lending "philanthropic processing power to big problems.''

This is exactly what I was talking about last November. If we could harness the power and ambition of gamers to achieve high scores and bragging rights and apply it to real world problems, we would be a truly awesome force. Now we're taking real steps. Go us! Michael Fahey

Peter Moore interview, part three [The Mercury News via GamesIndustry.biz]

12:20 PM on Wed May 9 2007
By Mike Fahey
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