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
- http://xdaqwiki.cern.ch

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.
- http://www.gridbus.org/~alchemi/

GridRepublic
- A non-profit organization created to provide supercomputing resources to public interest research, by use of volunteer distributed computing.
- http://www.gridrepublic.org/

A General-Purpose Heterogeneous Distributed Computing System
- Masters thesis by Thomas Keane B.Sc.
- http://minds.nuim.ie/~tkeane/publications/TMKeaneMSc2004.pdf

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.
- http://brew.qualcomm.com/

Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
- Protocol that enables software components to communicate over a network in a reliable, secure, and efficient manner.
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndcom/html/msdn_dcomtec.asp

Distributed Computing with HTTP, XML, SOAP, and WSDL
- Learn how various protocols fit into the big picture of the distributed computing arena.
- http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/distributed-computing

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.
- http://www.sdsc.edu/srb/

IBM Distributed Computing Environment
- IBM's product offering based on the DCE open standard for distributed computing.
- http://www-306.ibm.com/software/network/dce/

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.
- http://greentea.servehttp.com/

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.
- http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/11/xgrid_pt1.html

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.
- http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/18/xgrid_pt2.html

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.
- http://boinc.berkeley.edu

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.
- http://storm.bmi.ohio-state.edu/

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.
- http://datacutter.osu.edu/

Sandboss
- An open source framework generator creating communications, persistency, UI forms, configuration management and runtime control infrastructure from data and processing definitions.
- http://www.sandboss.org/

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.
- http://home.iprimus.com.au/yuhanov/clbs/clbs.html

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.
- http://qadpz.idi.ntnu.no/

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.
- http://www.zetagrid.net/

Economy Grid
- Research on the development of economic resource management and scheduling system for global grid computing. Description and papers.
- http://www.gridbus.org/

Aurora Management Workbench
- A software framework for building manageable (i.e, scalable, reliable, and configurable) distributed software applications. A Bell Labs project.
- http://www.bell-labs.com/project/aurora/

Cognitive Agent Architecture (Cougaar) Project
- Open-source Java-based architecture for the construction of large-scale distributed agent-based applications.
- http://www.cougaar.org/

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.
- http://www.mithral.com/projects/cosm/

Berkeley NOW (Networks of Workstations) Project
- Cluster computing project at the University of California, Berkeley, computer science department.
- http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/

XtremWeb Global Computing Network
- Harnesses spare computing power from clients for work on different projects.
- http://www.lri.fr/~fedak/XtremWeb

United Devices, Inc.
- Edge aggregation architecture that harnesses unused computer resources. Client software works on one of a variety of projects.
- http://www.ud.com/

Legion
- Generic middleware for creating a worldwide virtual computer.
- http://legion.virginia.edu/

Object Management Group
- Distributed object computing industry standards group founded in 1989. Defined standards include CORBA and IIOP.
- http://www.omg.org/

JXTA
- Language- and platform-independent protocol for peer-to-peer networking, developed by Sun. Initial implementation in Java. [Open Source, BSD-like]
- http://www.jxta.org/

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.
- http://www.opengroup.org/dce/