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Graphics Processing Units

Nvidia Corporation — September 2008

Graphics Processing Units

NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)

  • Contributing more than 1.25 petaflops of processing power equaling about 42 percent of the total processing power for the Stanford University Folding@home distributed computing project (http://folding.stanford.edu), which models proteins and their effects on the human body
  • Stanford University teams developed the Folding@home client using NVIDIA CUDA in C
  • This application researches cures to life-threatening illnesses such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, and Parkinson's disease by combining the computing horsepower of millions of processors to simulate protein folding

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