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



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



Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.

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...
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.
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).



The open source grid computing solution. JPPF makes it easy to parallelize computationally intensive tasks and execute them on a Grid.
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.


PelicanHPC is an iso-hybrid (CD or USB) image that let's you set up a high performance computing cluster in a few minutes.



