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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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Sumario: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. Computer graphics chips are well suited to simulating protein folding due to their use of what is known as parallel processing.