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. EyeWire icon
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    Eyewire is a game to map the brain. Anyone can play and you need no scientific background. Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world already do. Together we are mapping the 3D structure of neurons and advancing our quest to understand ourselves.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. HFM-NET icon
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    Folding@Home Client Monitoring Application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. 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
     
  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Salad icon
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    Salad allows gamers to mine crypto in their downtime. We turn your GPU power into credits you can spend on items like subscriptions, games, gift cards, donations and more from our curated storefront.

    2 Salad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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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
     
  7. The Cure icon
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    The Cure is a serious, biology-based card game. Assemble the best hands and you can win - just like poker. The challenge with The Cure is that we don't know the rules yet! Until you play, we can't tell you if you have the equivalent of a royal flush or a pair of 2s.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    ClusterKnoppix is a modified Knoppix distro using the OpenMosix kernel.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Knoppix
     
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