GridRepublic Alternatives

GridRepublic is described as 'Customized version of the BOINC software designed to simplify installation and participation by the average computer user' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to GridRepublic for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Android apps. The best GridRepublic alternative is BOINC, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GridRepublic are Apache Mesos, Charity Engine, Folding@home and Foldit.

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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 GridRepublic.

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

    • BOINC is Free and Open SourceGridRepublic is also Free and Open Source
    • BOINC is Lightweight and Privacy focusedGridRepublic 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. 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
     
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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 Web-based alternative to GridRepublic.

    • PiCloud is the most popular commercial alternative to GridRepublic.

    • PiCloud is Paid and ProprietaryGridRepublic is Free and Open Source
  6. 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
     
  8. HFM-NET icon
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    Folding@Home Client Monitoring Application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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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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    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
     
  11. 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
     
    • pybossa is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to GridRepublic.

    • pybossa is Free and Open SourceGridRepublic is also Free and Open Source
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