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GPUGRID is a volunteer computing project hosted by Pompeu Fabra University and running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform. It performs full-atom molecular biology simulations that are designed to run on Nvidia's CUDA-compatible graphics processing units.


== Former support for PS3s ==
Support for the PS3's Cell microprocessor and the subsequent PS3GRID project was dropped in 2009 due to updated firmware preventing the installation of required third-party software. This included Linux distributions that are required to run BOINC. The massive throughput of Nvidia GPUs has also made the PS3 client largely redundant. As of September 2009, a mid-range Nvidia GPU ran GPUGRID applications approximately five times faster than the Cell microprocessor.


== See also ==
List of volunteer computing projects
Molecular dynamics
GPGPU


== References ==


== Further reading ==
Research topics in GPUGRID website's science sections
GPUGRID's about us Archived 2016-11-04 at the Wayback Machine section


== External links ==
Official website
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)