What's the difference between Folding at Home (FAH) and Boinc?

[BotDamian]

Hi everyone,

so I've used Bionic many years ago when I was a teen and now I've used FaH for some time and I wonder what the difference between these two are.

I actually don't care about points at all, I care about that it truly helps. With FaH it feels like I don't know what it's doing at all while Boinc seem to give more info on blocks and what it's doing at the current moment.

 

I'm more into researching tech like Nuclear Fusion and such.

 

I'm open minded so yeah, I read everything and hope to learn lil more.

[Oshino Shinobu]

You can't really compare BOINC and F@H in terms of what they do. F@H is running simulations of protein dynamics in order to aide with medical research to cure diseases. BOINC is an open network computing platform (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing). BOINC in itself doesn't have a set goal, it's just a platform that can be utilised for distributed computing. You'd need to compare the various projects that use BOINC in order to compare them to F@H.

If you're more interested in nuclear fusion or other projects, rather than the medical research of F@H, you'd definitely be better off with BOINC, though you'd need to look through the available projects to find one that suits what you want to contribute to.

[manikyath]

assuming you mean 'BOINC'...

 

in short: to the 'end user' the same thing, made by different universities.

 

it's a platform where you can 'donate' compute time to a university, which would otherwise have to invest large amounts of money in supercomputing equipment.

 

behind the scenes BOINC is mostly a 'generic platform to donate compute time' for a very wide scope of projects, and F@H is specialized towards protein folding, for disease and medicine research.