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Old Jun 15, 2009, 11:34 AM   #2
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folding can be done by the GPU, crunching can be done by the CPU.

In folding you find out how proteins are made, or "folded", in crunching you perform mathematical calculations, or "crunch the numbers". That's how i see it.
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