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what's Folding@home, Boinc, and Coin Mining?

If you can't tell already I'm new to this stuff, so can someone explain what is Folding@home, Boinc, and Coin Mining?

Coin mining is mining virtual currency using hardware. Folding is using your hardware to find cures for diseases. I think Boinc is pretty similar.

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what's Folding@home, Boinc, and Coin Mining?

If you can't tell already I'm new to this stuff, so can someone explain what is Folding@home, Boinc, and Coin Mining?

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what's Folding@home, Boinc, and Coin Mining?

If you can't tell already I'm new to this stuff, so can someone explain what is Folding@home, Boinc, and Coin Mining?

I'm also new, but coin mining is mining for bitcoins, or other online currencies.

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what's Folding@home, Boinc, and Coin Mining?

If you can't tell already I'm new to this stuff, so can someone explain what is Folding@home, Boinc, and Coin Mining?

Coin mining is mining virtual currency using hardware. Folding is using your hardware to find cures for diseases. I think Boinc is pretty similar.

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It's helps the cure for cancer and other diseases that infect humans everyday. 

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what's Folding@home, Boinc, and Coin Mining?

If you can't tell already I'm new to this stuff, so can someone explain what is Folding@home, Boinc, and Coin Mining?

Folding @Home: https://folding.stanford.edu/

 Boinc: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Coin mining is crypto currency that is about all I know about it.

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Folding uses your unused computer power to simulate proteins for medical research, simply put

 

Boinc is like folding, only it has a wide range of projects, not limited to medical research, eg, Astronomy, Physics, or other scientific things (If you can't tell, I'm not really familiar with boinc)

 

I'll let someone else explain coin mining, I've never done it, and would probably fail at explaining it :/

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folding at home is a community project to help do research about common but uncured deseases (cancer and others) basicly putting your computer on a network with other people, and giving your resources (pc computing power / electricity and internet) to help ''fold''  molecules to help with the research

 

 

 

 

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https://folding.stanford.edu/

 

Folding@home and Boinc work in the same way, using a network of computers to calculate large scale problems for research and science! (this is just my assumption, I haven't used either yet.)

 

Coin Mining is where you use your hardware to solve math problems to earn magic internet money. Examples are the well-known Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin.

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Folding@home and boinc are what is known as distributed computing. Instead of building a huge supercomputer that would cost more than an institution can afford, they ask for voluntary help from other people. Those who accept receive "work units", pieces of calculations that use the power of their cpu and especially gpu to solve parts of a complex simulation. Anyone is welcome to help, regardles of how powerful their rig is (my own rig is relatively average for the forum as well as partly 4 years old, and yet it's in the top 15% of the folding population's hardware).

 

Coin mining is pretty much the same thing but instead of no-profit simulations you solve algorythms that grant you a certain amount of a certain virtual currency when finished. Depending on how cheap your power is you can either turn a profit or loose money.

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magic internet money.

 

LOL

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I'm also new, but coin mining is mining for bitcoins, or other online currencies.

 

Coin mining is mining virtual currency using hardware. Folding is using your hardware to find cures for diseases. I think Boinc is pretty similar.

 

It's helps the cure for cancer and other diseases that infect humans everyday. 

 

Folding @Home: https://folding.stanford.edu/

 Boinc: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Coin mining is crypto currency that is about all I know about it.

 

Folding uses your unused computer power to simulate proteins for medical research, simply put

 

Boinc is like folding, only it has a wide range of projects, not limited to medical research, eg, Astronomy, Physics, or other scientific things (If you can't tell, I'm not really familiar with boinc)

 

I'll let someone else explain coin mining, I've never done it, and would probably fail at explaining it :/

 

folding at home is a community project to help do research about common but uncured deseases (cancer and others) basicly putting your computer on a network with other people, and giving your resources (pc computing power / electricity and internet) to help ''fold''  molecules to help with the research

 

 

 

 

also holy potatoes ! 2000 posts :D  :D :D :D :D

 

https://folding.stanford.edu/

 

Folding@home and Boinc work in the same way, using a network of computers to calculate large scale problems for research and science! (this is just my assumption, I haven't used either yet.)

 

Coin Mining is where you use your hardware to solve math problems to earn magic internet money. Examples are the well-known Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin.

 

Folding@home and boinc are what is known as distributed computing. Instead of building a huge supercomputer that would cost more than an institution can afford, they ask for voluntary help from other people. Those who accept receive "work units", pieces of calculations that use the power of their cpu and especially gpu to solve parts of a complex simulation. Anyone is welcome to help, regardles of how powerful their rig is (my own rig is relatively average for the forum as well as partly 4 years old, and yet it's in the top 15% of the folding population's hardware).

 

Coin mining is pretty much the same thing but instead of no-profit simulations you solve algorythms that grant you a certain amount of a certain virtual currency when finished. Depending on how cheap your power is you can either turn a profit or loose money.

Thank you guys for your replies, I get it now

and congrats for your 2000 posts (thats a huge milestone)

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and congrats for your 2000 posts (thats a huge milestone)

 

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I think it would be better to ask: "What is this part of the forum" instead of "What the hell is this part of the forum"... Just sayin'  :rolleyes:

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