BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a software platform for volunteer computing and desktop grid and volunteer computing.
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pybossa Alternatives
pybossa is described as 'PYBOSSA is the ultimate crowdsourcing framework to analyze or enrich data that can't be processed by machines alone' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are four alternatives to pybossa for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best pybossa alternative is BOINC, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like pybossa are Folding@home, Foldit and GridRepublic.
Alternatives list
13 BOINC alternatives
19 Folding@home alternativesFolding@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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Docker
15 Foldit alternativesFoldit 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
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
