Cover Image
QR Code

Playing or processing?

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....

Full description

Published in:Economist Vol. 385; no. 8558; p. 20
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 12/8/2007
Subjects:
Protein folding
Digital image processing
Computer graphics
Computer simulation
Computer users
Volunteers > Social aspects
Parallel processing
Heterogeneous computing
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost