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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PiCloud alternatives page was last updated Jul 17, 2018
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  1. BOINC icon

    BOINC

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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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
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    BOINC Features

    1.  Distributed Computing
    2.  Scientific data analysis
    3.  Community-based
    4.  Peer-To-Peer

    BOINC VS PiCloud

     

    • 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
  2. Apache Mesos icon

    Apache Mesos

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

    29 Apache Mesos alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    Apache Mesos screenshot 1

    Apache Mesos Features

    1.  VPS
    2.  Hypervisor

    Apache Mesos VS PiCloud

     
  4. Charity Engine icon

    Charity Engine

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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...

    12 Charity Engine alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    Charity Engine Features

    1.  Charity

    Charity Engine VS PiCloud

     
  5. Folding@home icon

    Folding@home

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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

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker

    Folding@home Features

    1.  Decentralized
    2.  Distributed Computing
    3.  Scientific data analysis

    Folding@home VS PiCloud

     
  6. Foldit icon

    Foldit

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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).

    16 Foldit alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Foldit screenshot 1

    Foldit VS PiCloud

     
  7. GridRepublic icon

    GridRepublic

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    GridRepublic is a customized version of the BOINC software designed to simplify installation and participation by the average computer user.

    13 GridRepublic alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online

    GridRepublic Features

    1.  Distributed Computing
    2.  Parallel Computing

    GridRepublic VS PiCloud

     

    • GridRepublic is the most popular Web-based alternative to PiCloud.

    • GridRepublic is Free and Open SourcePiCloud is Paid and Proprietary
  9. Quantum Moves icon

    Quantum Moves

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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.

    11 Quantum Moves alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    Welcome to Quantum Moves

    Quantum Moves Features

    1.  Crowdsourced

    Quantum Moves VS PiCloud

     
  10. JPPF icon

    JPPF

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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.

    11 JPPF alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Java Mobile
    • OpenJDK
    • Solaris
    • Java

    JPPF Features

    1.  Distributed Computing
    2.  Clustering

    JPPF VS PiCloud

     
  11. CryptoBullions Folding Pool icon

    CryptoBullions Folding Pool

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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.

    9 CryptoBullions Folding Pool alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Online
    CryptoBullions Folding Pool

    CryptoBullions Folding Pool VS PiCloud

     
  12. HFM-NET icon

    HFM-NET

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    Folding@Home Client Monitoring Application.

    15 HFM-NET alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    HFM-NET screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Last update from 2015.

    HFM-NET Features

    1.  Crowdsourced
    2.  Distributed Computing

    HFM-NET VS PiCloud

     
  13. PelicanHPC icon

    PelicanHPC

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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.

    20 PelicanHPC alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    PelicanHPC screenshot 1
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    PelicanHPC Features

    1.  Clustering
    2.  Clustering analysis
    3.  Based on Debian
    4.  Distributed Computing
    5.  Cluster management

    PelicanHPC VS PiCloud

     
  14. ClusterKnoppix icon

    ClusterKnoppix

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    ClusterKnoppix is a modified Knoppix distro using the OpenMosix kernel.

    15 ClusterKnoppix alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Knoppix
    Discontinued

    discontinued

    ClusterKnoppix VS PiCloud

     
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