Microsoft games boss Peter Moore has indicated that the company would seriously consider running a research project similar to Sony’s Folding@home initiative on the Xbox 360.
The Folding@home project allows multiple, connected PlayStation 3’s to calculate data to aid medical research for Stanford University. Sony’s assistance has been widely praised for bringing attention to such schemes, where idle home consoles are able to simulate the processing power of multiple PCs.
“If we truly believe that we can in some way marshal 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,” commented Moore, corporate VP of interactive entertainment at Microsoft, to The Mercury News.
Source: GamesIndustry.biz