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....

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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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