ClusterKnoppix Alternatives

ClusterKnoppix is described as 'Modified Knoppix distro using the OpenMosix kernel' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to ClusterKnoppix for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Android apps. The best ClusterKnoppix alternative is BOINC, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ClusterKnoppix are Apache Mesos, Charity Engine, Folding@home and GridRepublic.

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  1. BOINC icon
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    BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a software platform for volunteer computing and desktop grid and volunteer computing.

    14 BOINC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
    • BOINC is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & Linux alternative to ClusterKnoppix.

    • BOINC is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to ClusterKnoppix.

    • BOINC is Free and Open SourceClusterKnoppix is Free and Proprietary
    • BOINC is Lightweight and Privacy focusedClusterKnoppix is not according to our users
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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
     
  3. Folding@home icon
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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
     
  4. GridRepublic icon
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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 ClusterKnoppix.

    • GridRepublic is Free and Open SourceClusterKnoppix is Free and Proprietary
  5. Distri.js icon
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    A software family that brings distributed computing to the browser, including a server and client.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Distri.js is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to ClusterKnoppix.

    • Distri.js is Free and Open SourceClusterKnoppix is Free and Proprietary
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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 ClusterKnoppix.

    • PiCloud is Paid and ProprietaryClusterKnoppix is Free and Proprietary
  7. JPPF icon
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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
     
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. Rocks icon
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    Rocks is an free Linux cluster distribution that enables end users to easily build computational clusters, grid endpoints and visualization tiled-display walls. 100's of researchers from around the world have used Rocks to deploy their own cluster.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • CentOS
     
  10. HFM-NET icon
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    Folding@Home Client Monitoring Application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

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