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Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. [1]

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@Home

@Home or @home may refer to.

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Adaptive sampling

Adaptive sampling is a technique used in computational molecular biology to efficiently simulate protein folding.

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AMBER

Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement (AMBER) is a family of force fields for molecular dynamics of biomolecules originally developed by Peter Kollman's group at the University of California, San Francisco.

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AMD FireStream

AMD FireStream was AMD's brand name for their Radeon-based product line targeting stream processing and/or GPGPU in supercomputers.

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Anticiparallelism

Anticiparallelism (Anticipatory Parallelism) is a term coined by Bob Metcalfe in 1998.

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Anton (computer)

Anton is a massively parallel supercomputer designed and built by D. E. Shaw Research in New York.

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BrookGPU

The Brook programming language and its implementation BrookGPU were early and influential attempts to enable general-purpose computing on graphics processing units.

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Cancer research

Cancer research is research into cancer to identify causes and develop strategies for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure.

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Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics

Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics or CPMD refers to either a method used in molecular dynamics (also known as the Car–Parrinello method) or the computational chemistry software package used to implement this method.

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Cell (microprocessor)

Cell is a multi-core microprocessor microarchitecture that combines a general-purpose Power Architecture core of modest performance with streamlined coprocessing elements which greatly accelerate multimedia and vector processing applications, as well as many other forms of dedicated computation.

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Cloud computing

Cloud computing is an information technology (IT) paradigm that enables ubiquitous access to shared pools of configurable system resources and higher-level services that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort, often over the Internet.

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Complex systems biology

Complex systems biology (CSB) is a branch or subfield of mathematical and theoretical biology concerned with complexity of both structure and function in biological organisms, as well as the emergence and evolution of organisms and species, with emphasis being placed on the complex interactions of, and within, bionetworks, and on the fundamental relations and relational patterns that are essential to life.

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Computer performance by orders of magnitude

This list compares various amounts of computing power in instructions per second organized by order of magnitude in FLOPS.

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Computer science

Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, together with practical techniques for the implementation and application of these foundations.

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Cosm (software)

Cosm is a family of open distributed computing software and protocols developed in beginning in 1995 led by Adam L. Beberg, and later developed by Mithral Inc.

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Counterparty (technology)

Counterparty is a financial platform for creating peer-to-peer financial applications on the bitcoin blockchain.

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Custom PC (magazine)

Custom PC (usually abbreviated to 'CPC') is a UK-based computer magazine created by Mr Freelance Limited, and published by Dennis Publishing Ltd. It's aimed at PC hardware enthusiasts, covering topics such as modding, overclocking and PC gaming.

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De novo protein structure prediction

In computational biology, de novo protein structure prediction refers to an algorithmic process by which protein tertiary structure is predicted from its amino acid primary sequence.

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Desmond (software)

Desmond is a software package developed at D. E. Shaw Research to perform high-speed molecular dynamics simulations of biological systems on conventional computer clusters.

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Distributed computing

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems.

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DNA origami

DNA origami is the nanoscale folding of DNA to create non-arbitrary two- and three-dimensional shapes at the nanoscale.

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Dr. Hadwen Trust

Animal Free Research UK (AFRUK) (formerly the Dr Hadwen Trust) is a UK medical research charity that funds and promotes non-animal techniques to replace animal experiments.

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Dry lab

A dry lab is a laboratory where computational or applied mathematical analyses are done on a computer-generated model to simulate a phenomenon in the physical realm.

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Enthusiast computing

Enthusiast computing refers to a sub-culture of personal computer users who focus on extremely high-end computers.

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Evolution@Home

Evolution@Home is the first parallel computing project for evolutionary biology.

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FAH

FAH, Fah or Fäh may refer to.

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FLOPS

In computing, floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations.

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Folding

Fold or folding may refer to.

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Foldit

Foldit is an online puzzle video game about protein folding.

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Genome@home

Genome@home was a distributed computing project run by Stefan Larson of Stanford University, and a sister project to Folding@home.

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Google Toolbar

Google Toolbar is a web browser toolbar for Internet Explorer, developed by Google.

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Graphics processing unit

A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.

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Grid computing

Grid computing is the collection of computer resources from multiple locations to reach a common goal.

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GROMACS

GROningen MAchine for Chemical Simulations (GROMACS) is a molecular dynamics package mainly designed for simulations of proteins, lipids and nucleic acids.

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Hardware stress test

Stress test (sometimes called a torture test) is a form of deliberately intense and thorough testing used to determine the stability of a given system or entity.

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Human Proteome Folding Project

The Human Proteome Folding Project (HPF) is a collaborative effort between New York University (Bonneau Lab), the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) and the University of Washington (Baker Lab), using the Rosetta software developed by the Rosetta Commons.

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In silico

In silico (literally cod Latin for "in silicon", alluding to the mass use of silicon for semiconductor computer chips) is an expression used to mean "performed on computer or via computer simulation." The phrase was coined in 1989 as an allusion to the Latin phrases in vivo, in vitro, and in situ, which are commonly used in biology (see also systems biology) and refer to experiments done in living organisms, outside living organisms, and where they are found in nature, respectively.

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Influenza research

Influenza research involves investigating molecular virology, pathogenesis, host immune responses, genomics, and epidemiology regarding influenza.

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Life with PlayStation

Life with PlayStation was an online multimedia application for the PlayStation 3 video game console on the PlayStation Network.

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Ligand (biochemistry)

In biochemistry and pharmacology, a ligand is a substance that forms a complex with a biomolecule to serve a biological purpose.

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List of crowdsourcing projects

Below is a list of projects that rely on crowdsourcing.

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List of distributed computing projects

This is a list of distributed computing and grid computing projects.

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List of Folding@home cores

The distributed-computing project Folding@home uses scientific computer programs, referred to as "cores" or "fahcores", to perform calculations.

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List of Stanford University people

This page lists the members of Stanford University, including students, alumni, faculty and academic affiliates associated.

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MilkyWay@home

MilkyWay@home is a volunteer distributed computing project in astrophysics running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform.

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Molecular dynamics

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a computer simulation method for studying the physical movements of atoms and molecules.

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Molecular modeling on GPUs

Molecular modeling on GPU is the technique of using a graphics processing unit (GPU) for molecular simulations.

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Naughty Dog

Naughty Dog, LLC (formerly JAM Software, Inc.) is an American first-party video game developer based in Santa Monica, California.

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Neowin

Neowin is a technology news website.

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Outline of machine learning

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to machine learning: Machine learning – subfield of computer sciencehttp://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1116194/machine-learning (more particularly soft computing) that evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence.

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Parallel computing

Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or the execution of processes are carried out concurrently.

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PC Master Race

The PC Master Race, sometimes referred to by its original phrasing as the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race, is an internet subculture, internet community, and a tongue-in-cheek term of superiority for PC gaming used among gamers to compare PC gaming to console gaming.

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PlayStation

is a gaming brand that consists of four home video game consoles, as well as a media center, an online service, a line of controllers, two handhelds and a phone, as well as multiple magazines.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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PlayStation 3 cluster

The considerable computing capability of the PlayStation 3's ''Cell'' microprocessors has raised interest in using multiple, networked PS3s for various tasks that require affordable high-performance computing.

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Potato Sack

The Potato Sack is the name of an alternate reality game (ARG) created by the Valve Corporation and the developers of thirteen independent video games to promote the release of Valve's title, Portal 2, in April 2011.

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PPD

PPD may refer to.

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Predictor@home

Predictor@home was a distributed computing project that used BOINC.

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Protein

Proteins are large biomolecules, or macromolecules, consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Protein engineering

Protein engineering is the process of developing useful or valuable proteins.

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Protein folding

Protein folding is the physical process by which a protein chain acquires its native 3-dimensional structure, a conformation that is usually biologically functional, in an expeditious and reproducible manner.

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Protein structure prediction

Protein structure prediction is the inference of the three-dimensional structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence—that is, the prediction of its folding and its secondary and tertiary structure from its primary structure.

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Protein tertiary structure

Protein tertiary structure is the three dimensional shape of a protein.

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Proteins@home

Proteins@home ("Proteins at home") was one of many distributed computing projects that used the BOINC architecture.

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PSU.com

PlayStation Universe (PSU.com) is a website providing news and forums for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita platforms.

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Quasi-opportunistic supercomputing

Quasi-opportunistic supercomputing is a computational paradigm for supercomputing on a large number of geographically disperse computers.

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Radeon HD 2000 series

The graphics processing unit (GPU) codenamed Radeon R600 is the foundation of the Radeon HD 2000 series and the FireGL 2007 series video cards developed by ATI Technologies.

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Rings of Power (video game)

Rings of Power is an isometric role-playing video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Electronic Arts for the Sega Genesis in 1991.

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Rosetta@home

Rosetta@home is a distributed computing project for protein structure prediction on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform, run by the Baker laboratory at the University of Washington.

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SETI@home

SETI@home ("SETI at home") is an Internet-based public volunteer computing project employing the BOINC software platform created by the Berkeley SETI Research Center and is hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Seventh generation of video game consoles

In the history of video games, the seventh generation includes consoles released since late by Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony Computer Entertainment.

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Similarity Matrix of Proteins

Similarity Matrix of Proteins (SIMAP) is a database of protein similarities created using distributed computing.

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Simulation

Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system.

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Storage@home

Storage@home was a distributed data store project designed to store massive amounts of scientific data across a large number of volunteer machines.

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Stress testing

Stress testing (sometimes called torture testing) is a form of deliberately intense or thorough testing used to determine the stability of a given system or entity.

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Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance compared to a general-purpose computer.

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SweClockers.com

SweClockers.com is a Swedish online magazine about computers and computer hardware, founded in 1999, with about 270,000 unique visitors per week and 200,000 registered users, as of August 2017.

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The Tech Report

The Tech Report is a web site dedicated to covering personal computing technology and culture.

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Tinker (software)

Tinker, stylized as TINKER, is a computer software application for molecular dynamics simulation with a complete and general package for molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics, with some special features for biopolymers.

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Vijay S. Pande

Vijay Satyanand Pande is a Trinidadian-American biomedical scientist and a former professor of chemistry, structural biology, and computer science at Stanford University.

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Viral disease

A viral disease (or viral infection) occurs when an organism's body is invaded by pathogenic viruses, and infectious virus particles (virions) attach to and enter susceptible cells.

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Volunteer computing

Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing, "an arrangement in which people, so-called volunteers, provide computing resources to projects, which use the resources to do distributed computing and/or storage".

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World Community Grid

World Community Grid (WCG) is an effort to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle scientific research projects that benefit humanity.

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World Pantheist Movement

The World Pantheist Movement (WPM) is the world's largest organization of people associated with pantheism, a philosophy which asserts that spirituality should be centered on nature.

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XrossMediaBar

The XrossMediaBar (pronounced "CrossMediaBar" or "cross-media bar" and officially abbreviated as XMB) is a graphical user interface developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home

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