BOINC Alternatives

BOINC is described as '(Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a software platform for volunteer computing and desktop grid and volunteer computing' and is a very popular Cloud Computing service in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to BOINC for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best BOINC alternative is Folding@home, which is free. Other great apps like BOINC are GridRepublic, Charity Engine, DreamLab and DIET.

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  1. Folding@home icon

    Folding@home

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    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.

    20 Folding@home alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
     
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    It is easier to set up and you don't need an account

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    One-time easy setup, runs transparently and efficiently without hassles of user-unfriendly BOINC.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think Folding@home is a great BOINC alternative.

    • Folding@home is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to BOINC.

    • Folding@home is the most popular free alternative to BOINC.

    • Folding@home is Free and ProprietaryBOINC is Free and Open Source
  2. GridRepublic icon

    GridRepublic

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    GridRepublic is a customized version of the BOINC software designed to simplify installation and participation by the average computer user.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     

    • GridRepublic is the most popular Web-based alternative to BOINC.

    • GridRepublic is the most popular Open Source alternative to BOINC.

    • GridRepublic is Free and Open SourceBOINC is also Free and Open Source
  4. Charity Engine icon

    Charity Engine

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    Charity Engine takes enormous, expensive computing jobs and chops them into 1000s of small pieces, each simple enough for a home PC to work on as a background task. Once each PC has finished its part of the puzzle, it sends back the correct answer and earns some money for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  5. DreamLab icon

    DreamLab

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    DreamLab is a multi-award winning app from the Vodafone Foundation, in partnership with Imperial College London, that uses the collective power of mobile phones to fast track cancer research. Cancer is one of the biggest causes of premature death worldwide, finding answers and...

    1 DreamLab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    • DreamLab is the most popular Android, iPhone & iPad alternative to BOINC.

    • DreamLab is Free and ProprietaryBOINC is Free and Open Source
  6. DIET icon

    DIET

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    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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     

    • DIET is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to BOINC.

    • DIET is Free and Open SourceBOINC is also Free and Open Source

  7. PiCloud

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    PiCloud gives every scientist, developer, and engineer a supercomputer at their fingertips. We make it easy to leverage thousands of cores of computational power for high performance computing, batch processing, and scientific computing applications.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     

    • PiCloud is the most popular commercial alternative to BOINC.

    • PiCloud is Paid and ProprietaryBOINC is Free and Open Source
  9. CryptoBullions Folding Pool icon

    CryptoBullions Folding Pool

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    Official Folding Pool for CureCoin - FAH Users on Team CureCoin (#224497) can sign up here using the same UserName (including capitalization) they use for Folding@Home to earn CureCoins.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    CryptoBullions Folding Pool
     
  10. JPPF icon

    JPPF

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    The open source grid computing solution. JPPF makes it easy to parallelize computationally intensive tasks and execute them on a Grid.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Java Mobile
    • OpenJDK
    • Solaris
    • Java
     
  11. pybossa icon

    pybossa

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    PYBOSSA is the ultimate crowdsourcing framework to analyze or enrich data that can't be processed by machines alone.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. ClusterKnoppix icon

    ClusterKnoppix

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    ClusterKnoppix is a modified Knoppix distro using the OpenMosix kernel.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Knoppix
     
  13. Quantum Moves icon

    Quantum Moves

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    Quantum Moves, part of the scienceathome.org umbrella concept, was born out of the dilemmas and questions the physics researchers at Aarhus University confronted with when they took the challenge of building a quantum computer in the basement lab of the university.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    Welcome to Quantum Moves
     
  14. PelicanHPC icon

    PelicanHPC

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    PelicanHPC is an iso-hybrid (CD or USB) image that let's you set up a high performance computing cluster in a few minutes.

    20 PelicanHPC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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