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The article examines Folding@home, a volunteer computing project on protein folding run by Stanford University. Folding@home's software allows volunteers on the computer graphics chips found in most modern personal computers rather than its core operating unit, allowing for faster data processiing....

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 385; no. 8558; p. 20
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 12/8/2007
Materias:
Protein folding
Digital image processing
Computer graphics
Computer simulation
Computer users
Volunteers > Social aspects
Parallel processing
Heterogeneous computing
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