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



ClusterKnoppix is described as 'Modified Knoppix distro using the OpenMosix kernel' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to ClusterKnoppix for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Android apps. The best ClusterKnoppix alternative is BOINC, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ClusterKnoppix are Apache Mesos, Charity Engine, Folding@home and GridRepublic.
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.
GridRepublic is a customized version of the BOINC software designed to simplify installation and participation by the average computer user.
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.
The open source grid computing solution. JPPF makes it easy to parallelize computationally intensive tasks and execute them on a Grid.
PelicanHPC is an iso-hybrid (CD or USB) image that let's you set up a high performance computing cluster in a few minutes.




Rocks is an free Linux cluster distribution that enables end users to easily build computational clusters, grid endpoints and visualization tiled-display walls. 100's of researchers from around the world have used Rocks to deploy their own cluster.

DIET is a software for grid-computing. As middleware, DIET sits between the operating system (which handles the details of the hardware) and the application software (which deals with the specific computational task at hand).