The joint efforts of over half a million PlayStation 3 owners have caused the Folding@home project to smash a new world record.

The first record was achieved on Sept. 16, as the project surpassed one petaflop, which had never been reached before by a distributed computing network. In Additionally, the collective efforts enabled PS3 alone to reach the petaflop mark on Sept. 23.

"To have Folding@home recognized by Guinness World Records as the most powerful distributed computing network ever is a reflection of the extraordinary worldwide participation by gamers and consumers around the world and for that we are very grateful," said Vijay Pande, associate professor of chemistry at Stanford University and Folding@home project lead. "Without them we would not be able to make the advancements we have made in our studies of several different diseases. But 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."

"To have PS3 play such a large role in allowing Folding@home to be honored by Guinness World Records is truly incredible," said Masayuki Chatani, executive vice president and chief technology officer for technology platform at Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. "This record is clear evidence of the power of PS3 and the contributions that it is making to the Folding@home network and, more importantly, scientific research."

More than 670,000 unique PlayStation 3 users are registered for the groundbreaking project.

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