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Object Management Group - http://www.omg.org/
Distributed object computing industry standards group founded in 1989. Defined standards include CORBA and IIOP. |
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JXTA - http://www.jxta.org/
Language- and platform-independent protocol for peer-to-peer networking, developed by Sun. Initial implementation in Java. [Open Source, BSD-like] |
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Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndcom/html/msdn_dcomtec.asp
Protocol that enables software components to communicate over a network in a reliable, secure, and efficient manner. |
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United Devices, Inc. - http://www.ud.com/
Edge aggregation architecture that harnesses unused computer resources. Client software works on one of a variety of projects. |
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GridRepublic - http://www.gridrepublic.org/
A non-profit organization created to provide supercomputing resources to public interest research, by use of volunteer distributed computing. |
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Economy Grid - http://www.gridbus.org/
Research on the development of economic resource management and scheduling system for global grid computing. Description and papers. |
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OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) - http://www.opengroup.org/dce/
An industry-standard, vendor-neutral set of distributed computing technologies. Provides scalable organization of users and shared data, along with basic services such as security and naming. |
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QUALCOMM - BREW - http://brew.qualcomm.com/
QUALCOMM's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW). A complete, open solution for wireless applications development, device configuration, application distribution, billing and payment. |
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ZetaGrid - http://www.zetagrid.net/
An open source and platform independent grid system that uses idle CPU cycles from participating computers. ZetaGrid solves one problem in practice: numerical verification of the Riemann Hypothesis. |
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Cognitive Agent Architecture (Cougaar) Project - http://cougaar.org/
Open-source Java-based architecture for the construction of large-scale distributed agent-based applications. |
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Legion - http://legion.virginia.edu/
Generic middleware for creating a worldwide virtual computer. |
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Cosm - http://www.mithral.com/projects/cosm/
Provides an infrastructure for true distributed computing projects. This includes applications as well as APIs for users to design and build their own projects. |
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Alchemi .NET Grid Computing Framework - http://www.gridbus.org/~alchemi/
Alchemi is an open source software framework that allows you to painlessly aggregate the computing power of networked machines into a virtual supercomputer (computational grid) and to develop .NET applications to run on the grid. |
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Distributed Computing with HTTP, XML, SOAP, and WSDL - http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/distributed-computing
Learn how various protocols fit into the big picture of the distributed computing arena. |
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XDAQ Data Acquisition Toolkit Web Site - http://xdaqwiki.cern.ch
European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN. Current distributed XDAQ framework project. A framwork for distributed data acquisition application. Maintained by Johannes Gutleber and Luciano Orsini |
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Echelon - http://www.geocities.com/echelongrid/
Agent based grid computing. |
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IBM Distributed Computing Environment - http://www-306.ibm.com/software/network/dce/
IBM's product offering based on the DCE open standard for distributed computing. |
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DataCutter Project - http://datacutter.osu.edu/
Research project developing a middleware framework for filtering large, scientific datasets in a cluster or Grid environment. Enables highly efficient exploration and analysis of datasets in distributed and heterogeneous environments. |
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MacDevCenter.com: Integrating Xgrid into Cocoa Applications, Part 1 - http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/11/xgrid_pt1.html
In this first of two articles exploring Xgrid, Drew McCormack provides a little background information, then moves to installation, and finishes off with a command-line script for distributing compilation using Xgrid. |
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STORM - http://storm.bmi.ohio-state.edu/
Research project developing middleware designed to support data select, indexing, and transfer operations on large scientific datasets in a grid or clustered computing environment. |
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Q²ADPZ - Collaborative Computing - http://qadpz.idi.ntnu.no/
An Open-Source project that provides software to distribute work over many computers in a network. The machines are only used during idle-time. |
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A General-Purpose Heterogeneous Distributed Computing System - http://minds.nuim.ie/~tkeane/publications/TMKeaneMSc2004.pdf
Masters thesis by Thomas Keane B.Sc. |
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MacDevCenter.com: Integrating Xgrid into Cocoa Applications, Part 2 - http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/18/xgrid_pt2.html
In Part 1, Drew McCormack showed how to install and start using Xgrid. Now in Part 2, he covers integration with Cocoa. |
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Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) - http://boinc.berkeley.edu
Software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources, allowing participants to participate in multiple projects. Software downloads, links to active projects, news, message boards, and other information. |
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SDSC Storage Resource Broker (SRB) - http://www.sdsc.edu/srb/
SDSC SRB provides the abstraction mechanisms needed to implement very large distributed environments like data grids, digital libraries, and persistent archives for data sharing, data publication, and data preservation. |
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Sandboss - http://www.sandboss.org/
An open source framework generator creating communications, persistency, UI forms, configuration management and runtime control infrastructure from data and processing definitions. |
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Clustopium Cluster Server/Client System - http://home.iprimus.com.au/yuhanov/clbs/clbs.html
The next step to distributed computer systems, A complete Java framework for implementing MultiNodal processor farms. There is a demo, but the full implementation is for sale. |
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Berkeley NOW (Networks of Workstations) Project - http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/
Cluster computing project at the University of California, Berkeley, computer science department. |
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Internet Based Distributed Super Computer - http://members.tripod.com/distributedcomputer/
Build a supercomputer using wasted CPU cycles of home and office computers. (A fledgling project looking for a sponsor and participants.) |