Graphics Processing Units
Nvidia Corporation
— September 2008

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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