Hello SeanMarshall,
No, Folding@Home is very advanced Computational Chemistry, trying to learn just how proteins fold down at the quantum level. Rosetta tries to actually fold proteins using high level rules. It is a simpler model of protein folding. Knowledge gained from Folding@Home could be used to create a better model for protein folding. So - it is related but does not actually overlap.

Here is a 2001 article in Wired titled 'Gene Machine' : http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.07/blue.html?pg=1
It contrasts the high level manner that Rosetta works with a (theoretical) simulation of protein folding at the quantum level. Folding@Home is not fully simulating a protein, but is trying to learn enough about the critical parts to help create a better model of the process.

In a slightly different vein, here is a list of current distributed computer projects of various types: http://distributedcomputing.info/projects.html

mycrofth

Hello mattyfd99,
It is not possible to simultaneously run both the WCG United Devices agent and the grid.org United Devices agent on the same computer. They both use the same global variable names so only one can run at a time. But you can have both installed, as long as you remove the shortcut for one from the startup folder. Umm - I'm going into too much detail, aren't I? It is very easy to switch, since neither writes anything to the registry. Just uninstall one and install the other to try it out. You can always switch installations back by checking the 'Previous Member' box during reinstallation. Just give your device (computer) a new name each time. Try appending the date, for example. It keeps things straight.

Try out as many projects as you want, but try to run one at a time. That way they do not cause contention problems and fill up your memory.

mycrofth

Cancer related projects are expected on WCG Any Time Now™.

Then you will be able to use your WCG settings to share your crunching between projects, or work exclusively on cancer.

As others have said, grid.org has had many problems in the past.

See the HPF2 thread.

https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=5471

THE HPF 2 project will work on cancer biomarkers as a part, according to Dr. Bonneau.

This is encouraging, but we are still waiting for the proposed "cancer project" which could be something else. We haven't seen what it is, or if it even would use the ligandfit program like at grid.org. The similar Autodock program used by fightaids@home has very tiny workfiles, so we can spend more time crunching and less time transmitting. It plays with ligands and docking energy like the cancer crunching at grid.org does.

There many be a couple of different things start up in the next few months. We're watching to see what comes along.