There are many alternatives to BOINC for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is Folding@home, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to BOINC and five of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to BOINC are GridRepublic, Charity Engine, DIET and JPPF.
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.
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...
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.
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