Folding@home Alternatives
Folding@home is described as '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' and is a Cloud Computing service in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Folding@home for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Linux, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best Folding@home alternative is BOINC, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Folding@home are Apache Mesos, Charity Engine, Foldit and EyeWire.
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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).
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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The Cure is a serious, biology-based card game. Assemble the best hands and you can win - just like poker. The challenge with The Cure is that we don't know the rules yet! Until you play, we can't tell you if you have the equivalent of a royal flush or a pair of 2s.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Online
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
- Knoppix
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