Folding@home Alternatives

Folding@home is described as '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' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Folding@home for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Linux, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best Folding@home alternative is BOINC, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Folding@home are Apache Mesos, Charity Engine, Foldit 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

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

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

    • BOINC is Free and Open SourceFolding@home is Free and Proprietary
    • BOINC is Lightweight and Privacy focusedFolding@home 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. Foldit icon
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    Foldit is an experimental video game about protein folding, developed as a collaboration between the University of Washington's departments of Computer Science and Engineering and Biochemistry (many of the same people who created Rosetta@home).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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 Folding@home.

    • GridRepublic is Free and Open SourceFolding@home 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 Folding@home.

    • Distri.js is Free and Open SourceFolding@home is Free and Proprietary
  6. EteRNA icon
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    Eterna is a citizen science game where players learn to design RNA molecules for medical research by solving puzzles. Complete these puzzles to unlock lab access and participate in challenges where you can invent medicine!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Phylo icon
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    Though it may appear to be just a game, Phylo is actually a framework for harnessing the computing power of mankind to solve a common problem; Multiple Sequence Alignments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Quantum Moves icon
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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
     
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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

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    • Online
     
    • PiCloud is the most popular commercial alternative to Folding@home.

    • PiCloud is Paid and ProprietaryFolding@home is Free and Proprietary
  10. 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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    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
     
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