Learn more about Platforms from our Distributed Computing directory

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

Berkeley NOW (Networks of Workstations) Project - Cluster computing project at the University of California

Clustopium Cluster Server/Client System - The next step to distributed computer systems

Computing Minimum Equal Sums of Like Power - Software download

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.

Cougaar Open Source Project - Welcome to the Cognitive Agent Architecture (Cougaar) Open Source Project site. Cougaar is java-based architecture for the construction of large-scale distributed agent-based applications.

DataCutter Project - Research project developing a middleware framework for filtering large

Distributed Computing With SOAP - Distributed Computing With SOAP. Learn how and why SOAP fits into the big picture of today's distributed computing arena. April 2000

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

Heterogeneous Distributed Computing - Department of Computer Science

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

JXTA - Language- and platform-independent protocol for peer-to-peer networking

Legion - Generic middleware for creating a worldwide virtual computer.

Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) - Protocol that enables software components to communicate over a network in a reliable

MoBiDiCK - Modular Bioinformatics Distributed Computing Kernel developed at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute. Papers and downloads available.

Mozart Programming System - Platform for distributed computing built using the Oz programming language.

Object Management Group - Distributed object computing industry standards group founded in 1989. Defined standards include CORBA and IIOP.

Q?ýADPZ - 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

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

Sengent - A distributed financial agent that provides investment advice. Product information

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

STORM - Research project developing middleware designed to support data select

The sandboss distributed application framework generator - An open source framework generator creating communications

United Devices - 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

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.