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 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 Charity Engine, Distri.js, GridRepublic and Quantum Moves.

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BOINC alternatives page was last updated Jul 12, 2020
  1. Folding@home icon
     12 likes

    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

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker

    Folding@home Features

    1.  Decentralized
    2.  Distributed Computing
    3.  Scientific data analysis
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    Folding@home VS BOINC

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    Comments about Folding@home as an Alternative to BOINC
     
    Guest

    It is easier to set up and you don't need an account

    Positive commentJun 14, 2020
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    Guest

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

    Positive commentJul 12, 2020
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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
    • Folding@home is DecentralizedBOINC is not according to our users
  2. Charity Engine icon
     8 likes

    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...

    12 Charity Engine alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    Charity Engine Features

    1.  Charity
    Charity Engine iconBOINC Icon

    Charity Engine VS BOINC

    Is Charity Engine a good alternative to BOINC?
     
    • Charity Engine is the most popular Open Source alternative to BOINC.

    • Charity Engine is Free and Open SourceBOINC is also Free and Open Source
  3. Distri.js icon
     1 like

    A software family that brings distributed computing to the browser, including a server and client.

    8 Distri.js alternatives
    Distri.js screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    Distri.js Features

    1.  Distributed Computing
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    Distri.js VS BOINC

    Is Distri.js a good alternative to BOINC?
     
    • Distri.js is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to BOINC.

    • Distri.js is Free and Open SourceBOINC is also Free and Open Source
  4. GridRepublic icon
     6 likes

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

    13 GridRepublic alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online

    GridRepublic Features

    1.  Distributed Computing
    2.  Parallel Computing
    GridRepublic iconBOINC Icon

    GridRepublic VS BOINC

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  5. Quantum Moves icon
     3 likes

    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.

    11 Quantum Moves alternatives
    Welcome to Quantum Moves

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online

    Quantum Moves Features

    1.  Crowdsourced
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  6.  2 likes

    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.

    13 PiCloud alternatives

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online

    PiCloud Features

    1.  Distributed Computing
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    PiCloud VS BOINC

    Is PiCloud a good alternative to BOINC?
     
    • PiCloud is the most popular commercial alternative to BOINC.

    • PiCloud is Paid and ProprietaryBOINC is Free and Open Source
  7. JPPF icon
     1 like

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

    11 JPPF alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Java Mobile
    • OpenJDK
    • Solaris
    • Java

    JPPF Features

    1.  Distributed Computing
    2.  Clustering
    JPPF iconBOINC Icon

    JPPF VS BOINC

    Is JPPF a good alternative to BOINC?
     
    • JPPF is the most popular Android alternative to BOINC.

    • JPPF is Free and Open SourceBOINC is also Free and Open Source
  8. CryptoBullions Folding Pool icon
     1 like

    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.

    9 CryptoBullions Folding Pool alternatives
    CryptoBullions Folding Pool

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    CryptoBullions Folding Pool iconBOINC Icon

    CryptoBullions Folding Pool VS BOINC

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  9. DreamLab icon
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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
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    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad

    DreamLab Features

    DreamLab iconBOINC Icon

    DreamLab VS BOINC

    Is DreamLab a good alternative to BOINC?
     
    • DreamLab is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to BOINC.

    • DreamLab is Free and ProprietaryBOINC is Free and Open Source
  10. HFM-NET icon
     1 like

    Folding@Home Client Monitoring Application.

    15 HFM-NET alternatives
    HFM-NET screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    HFM-NET Features

    1.  Crowdsourced
    2.  Distributed Computing
    Discontinued

    Last update from 2015.

    HFM-NET iconBOINC Icon

    HFM-NET VS BOINC

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  11. DIET icon
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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).

    11 DIET alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    DIET Features

    1.  Distributed Computing
    DIET iconBOINC Icon

    DIET VS BOINC

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

    5 pybossa alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    pybossa Features

    1.  Crowdsourced
    pybossa iconBOINC Icon

    pybossa VS BOINC

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