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title: "GPUGRID.net"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPUGRID.net"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T03:24:34.200411+00:00"
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instance: "kb-cron"
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---
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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.
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== Former support for PS3s ==
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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.
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== See also ==
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List of volunteer computing projects
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Molecular dynamics
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GPGPU
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
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Research topics in GPUGRID website's science sections
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GPUGRID's about us Archived 2016-11-04 at the Wayback Machine section
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== External links ==
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Official website
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Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) |