GPUGRID.net

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GPUGRID.net
Developer(s) Multiscale Laboratory
Initial releaseMay 12, 2007 (2007-05-12)
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform BOINC
License Proprietary
Website www.gpugrid.net

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

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. [1]

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References

  1. "NEW PS3 OS3.0 => NO Linux/BOINC". www.gpugrid.net/forum_index.php. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2011-04-27.

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