There are many alternatives to BOINC for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Folding@home, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to BOINC and six of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to BOINC are GridRepublic, DIET, JPPF and ClusterKnoppix.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals.
GridRepublic is a customized version of the BOINC software designed to simplify installation and participation by the average computer user.
DIET is a software for grid-computing. As middleware, DIET sits between the operating system (which handles the details of the hardware) and the application software (which deals with the specific computational task at hand).
The open source grid computing solution. JPPF makes it easy to parallelize computationally intensive tasks and execute them on a Grid.
PelicanHPC is an iso-hybrid (CD or USB) image that let's you set up a high performance computing cluster in a few minutes.
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It is easier to set up and you don't need an account