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MIT LCS PDOS - http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/
Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems Group; research focus: extensible and flexible system services: filesystems, networking, languages. Projects: 'C, Chord, Click, Exokernel (Exopc), Grid, Prolac, RON, and SFS. Funding: DARPA, NSF; AT&T, IBM, Intel. Many open source downloads.
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The V Distributed System - http://eia.udg.es/~teo/sd/documents/articles/p314-cheriton.pdf
Research OS for a cluster of computer workstations connected by fast network; structured as a small distributed kernel, and set of service modules, runtime libraries, and commands. Stanford University.
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MOSIX - http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/
Software package to enhance Unix kernels (7 so far) and Linux with cluster computing abilities. Lets any size cluster of x86-based workstations and servers work cooperatively as if part of one system. [Open Source, GPL]
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WebOS - http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/issg/webos/
Gives distributed OS services needed to build applications that are wide-area, highly available, incrementally scalable, dynamically reconfiguring, with mechanisms for: resource discovery, global namespace, remote process execution, resource management, authentication, security.
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YouOS - https://www.youos.com/
Allows running diverse programs in web browser, integrated program development and management, based on HTML and JavaScript. Descriptions, FAQ, weblog, forum, developer support, tutorial, policy, contacts. Open source.
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Quarks - http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/quarks.html
Simple, yet efficient distributed shared memory (DSM) system; a user-level library plus header files supports DSM on groups of Unix workstations. Runs on 4.3BSD/M68k, HP-UX/PA-RISC, IRIX 5.2/MIPS, SunOS 4.1/SPARC. [Open Source, public domain]
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GLUnix - http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Glunix/glunix.html
Global Layer Unix; technology trends in high-speed, low-latency LANs suggest convergence of hardware in Massively Parallel Processors, MPPs, and Networks of Workstations, NOWs. Relative to many MPPs, NOWs offer more cost-effectiveness and scalability, and less hardware and software development time. Soon, the main difference between NOWs and MPPs will be OS software.
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V Operating System - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(operating_system)
Growing article, with links to many related topics. Wikipedia.
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AgentOS - http://bolero.ics.uci.edu/agentos/
Mobile agent system for ubiquitous computing; new way to cope with the wide-area, large-scale ubiquitous computing environment of near future. Allows access to personal and collaborative computing services anywhere, via varied desktop and mobile computing devices.
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Hurricane - http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/ParallelSys/hurricane.html
hierarchically clustered OS implemented on Hector multiprocessor; manages system resources in clusters, using tight coupling within clusters, loose coupling across clusters. Succeeded by Tornado.
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Tornado - http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/ParallelSys/tornado.html
Object-oriented operating system for large-scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Minimizes data sharing via careful design: often eliminates data sharing even when sharing appears natural. Successor to Hurricane.
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SUMO - http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/sumo/
Support for Multimedia in Operating systems, Lancaster University: microkernel OS with facilities to support distributed realtime and multimedia applications and ODP-based multimedia distributed application platforms.
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XOS - http://free.prohosting.com/~xos/
Distributed operating system, to be fully object-oriented, preemptively multithreaded/tasked, event/message-driven. Little code yet, but design documents and links are interesting, useful reading.
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E1 - http://www.e1os.org/
A distributed operating system based on the concepts of object replication, component model support and persistence. It consists of a L4 microkernel and a set of distributed objects acting at the user level. [Open source]
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AtomsNet - http://atoms.sourceforge.net/
Modular object-oriented application to index files across networks. Has plug-in type data retrieval system, webserver, peer-to-peer connections for network-wide information gathering, retrieval; has features of OSs, database management systems, distributed networking. Open Source, GPL.
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Institute for Distributed Systems: IVS - http://ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/index_english.shtml
Researches distributed and realtime operating systems, communication, software engineering. Part of Department of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany. English, Deutsch.
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MOSIX Clusters of Surplus Computers for Providing Common Network Services and Applications - http://ralphie.perlmonk.org/mosix/
Details active project to illustrate use of MOSIX to create clusters of surplus machines that can be used to provide network services, application resources.
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The Brave New OS of the Future - http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/13/brave.new.os.idg/
Brief, simple layman's treatment of Carnegie Mellon University Odyssey project; IBM Research's Autonomic Computing initiative; Microsoft Farsite project. [CNN.com]
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AgentOS: Agent-based Distributed Operating System for Mobile Networks - http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-2/agentos.html
Agent-based communication models show great promise to operate in unpredictable, metamorphic environments, such as mobile computing networks. Excellent basic explanations, clear arguments, well reasoned; from Crossroads, ACM student magazine.
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Plan B Operating System - http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/ls/planb.html
An operating system that lets applications be built simpler. The system selects and combines resources from the network semi-automatically.
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Sprite - ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/sprite/sprite.html
Distributed OS gives one system image to/over a networked cluster of workstations, research project, Berkeley, John Outerhoust group; high file system performance via client and server caching, process migration to use idle machines; testbed for research in file systems (log-structured, striped, RAID), crash recovery.
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