The Raspberry Pi was recently roadtested with pupils at a Chesterton Community College in the U.K. and allowed kids to program their own version of the old-fashioned Snake game, made famous on those early, Nokia phones.
This is largely because cars are never actually tested out on the road, but rather in a laboratory under strictly controlled conditions that are designed to simulate city and highway.
Researchers have not yet chosen which protein they will fold when Blue Gene is finished a few years down the road, but Horn said that simple proteins will be tested before then.