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NVIDIA Achieves Monumental Folding@home Milestone With CUDA

Published in Healthcare Mergers, Acquisitions and Ventures Week, September 13th, 2008

NVIDIA GPUs are contributing over 1 petaflop[1] of processing power to Stanford University's Folding@home distributed computing application as of last week, according to the statistics published by Stanford. Active NVIDIA(R) GPUs deliver over 1.25 petaflops, or 42% of the total processing power of the application which seeks to understand how proteins affect the human body.

NVIDIA's petaflop contribution, nearly half of the processing power on Folding@home, is delivered by just 11,370 of the total active processors used in the project. In comparison, 208,268 CPUs running Windows were active, contributing just 198 teraflops -- just 6% of the total processing power in the...

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