| Alchemi .NET Grid Computing Framework: 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. |
| Apple Advanced Computation Group - Xgrid: Clustering software intended primarily for scientific researchers. Mac OS X only. |
| Aurora Management Workbench: A software framework for building manageable (i.e, scalable, reliable, and configurable) distributed software applications. A Bell Labs project. |
| Berkeley NOW (Networks of Workstations) Project: Cluster computing project at the University of California, Berkeley, computer science department. |
| Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC): 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. |
| Clustopium Cluster Server/Client System: 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. |
| Cognitive Agent Architecture (Cougaar) Project: Open-source Java-based architecture for the construction of large-scale distributed agent-based applications. |
| 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. |
| DataCutter Project: 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. |
| Distributed Computing With SOAP: Distributed Computing With SOAP. Learn how and why SOAP fits into the big picture of the distributed computing arena. |
| Echelon: Agent based grid computing. |
| Economy Grid: Research on the development of economic resource management and scheduling system for global grid computing. Description and papers. |
| GreenTea Java-based P2P Distributed Computing Platform: Can be used for parallel supercomputing, distributed file sharing/searching/storage, distributed storage, and total resource sharing applications. |
| IBM Distributed Computing Environment: IBM's product offering based on the DCE open standard for distributed computing. |
| Internet Based Distributed Super Computer: Build a supercomputer using wasted CPU cycles of home and office computers. (A fledgling project looking for a sponsor and participants.) |
| Jtrix: A platform for developing adaptive, scalable applications capable of migration. Framework source code, documentation, and information about projects using the framework available. |
| JXTA: Language- and platform-independent protocol for peer-to-peer networking, developed by Sun. Initial implementation in Java. [Open Source, BSD-like] |
| Legion: Generic middleware for creating a worldwide virtual computer. |
| MacDevCenter.com: Integrating Xgrid into Cocoa Applications, Part 1: 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. |
| MacDevCenter.com: Integrating Xgrid into Cocoa Applications, Part 2: In Part 1, Drew McCormack showed how to install and start using Xgrid. Now in Part 2, he covers integration with Cocoa. |
| Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM): Protocol that enables software components to communicate over a network in a reliable, secure, and efficient manner. |
| Object Management Group: Distributed object computing industry standards group founded in 1989. Defined standards include CORBA and IIOP. |
| OSF Distributed Computing Environment (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. |
| Q²ADPZ - Collaborative Computing: An Open-Source project that provides software to distribute work over many computers in a network. The machines are only used during idle-time and can be in use for other things. |
| QUALCOMM - BREW: QUALCOMM's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW). A complete, open solution for wireless applications development, device configuration, application distribution, billing and payment. |
| Quickstone Technologies Limited: Supplier of the a Java-based distributed computing framework called JCSP. JCSP is particularly easy to program and promotes a message-passing style of concurrent programming. |
| SDSC Storage Resource Broker (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. |
| Sensei: Active components replication: Sensei is a project supporting the development of fault tolerant applications using active replication. Its interface is specified in CORBA and JavaRMI, supporting both architectures independently. |
| STORM: Research project developing middleware designed to support data select, indexing, and transfer operations on large scientific datasets in a grid or clustered computing environment. |
| The sandboss distributed application framework generator: An open source framework generator creating communications, persistency, UI forms, configuration management and runtime control infrastructure from data and processing definitions. |
| United Devices, Inc.: Edge aggregation architecture that harnesses unused computer resources. Client software works on one of a variety of projects. |
| XDAQ Data Acquisition Toolkit Web Site: 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 |
| XtremWeb Global Computing Network: Harnesses spare computing power from clients for work on different projects. |
| ZetaGrid: 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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