PiCloud Alternatives

PiCloud is described as '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' and is a Cloud Computing service in the business & commerce category. There are more than 10 alternatives to PiCloud, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows and Android apps. The best PiCloud alternative is BOINC, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to PiCloud 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 PiCloud.

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

    • BOINC is Free and Open SourcePiCloud is Paid and Proprietary
    • BOINC is Lightweight and Privacy focusedPiCloud 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
     
  5. 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 PiCloud.

    • GridRepublic is Free and Open SourcePiCloud is Paid and Proprietary
  6. 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
     
  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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    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
     
  9. 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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    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
     
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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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