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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)