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This and related projects target high-performance applications on tightly coupled distributed
memory architectures. Successor of SUNMOS. Sandia National Laboratories.
http://www.cs.sandia.gov/HPCCIT/puma/puma_p2.html
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MOSIX
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]
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/labs/mosix/
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FIOS: Free Internet Operating System
Documentation site for an idea on a GNU Internet OS that could be a common OS and platform for
secure sharing, streaming and storing of personal data; probably to be based on a distributed OS
and some peer-to-peer systems.
http://www.angelfire.com/ego/agleight/ideas/fios.html
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Quarks
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]
http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/quarks.html
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The Brave New OS of the Future
Brief, simple layman's treatment of Carnegie Mellon University's Odyssey project; IBM Research's
Autonomic Computing initiative; Microsoft's Farsite project. [CNN.com]
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/13/brave.new.os.idg/
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GUIDE
Grenoble Universities Integrated Distributed Environment. Object-oriented distributed OS to develop
and operate distributed applications on local area networks of workstations and servers. Joint
project Bull, IMAG Research Institute; related to COMANDOS, BROADCAST Esprit Projects.
http://sardes.inrialpes.fr/guide/Welcome.html
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Plan B Operating System
An operating system that lets applications be built simpler. The system selects and combines
resources from the network semi-automatically.
http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/who/nemo/Plan-B.html
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Institute for Distributed Systems: IVS
Researches distributed and realtime operating systems, communication, software engineering. Part of
Department of Computer Science at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg. Some information
on site not in English.
http://ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/index_english.shtml
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AtomsNet
Modular object-oriented application to index files across networks. Consists of 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]
http://atoms.sourceforge.net/
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MIT LCS PDOS
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.
http://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/
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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.
http://free.prohosting.com/~xos/
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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.
http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/issg/webos/
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AgentOS: Agent-based Distributed Operating System for Mobile Networks
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.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-2/agentos.html
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Hive
Distributed Unix operating system for Stanford FLASH multiprocessor; survives hardware and software
faults, performance near commercial Unix. Arranged as internal system of independent kernels
(cells) for reliability, scalability.
http://www-flash.stanford.edu/OS/
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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.
http://bolero.ics.uci.edu/agentos/
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GLUnix
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.
http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Glunix/glunix.html
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Tornado
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.
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/ParallelSys/tornado.html
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Hurricane
hierarchically clustered OS implemented on Hector multiprocessor; manages system resources in
clusters, using tight coupling within clusters, loose coupling across clusters. Succeeded by
Tornado.
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/ParallelSys/hurricane.html
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DTOS
Distributed Trusted OS; Mach-based microkernel. Goal: show feasibility of including strong security
mechanisms without sacrificing other desirable features; NSA funded as part of broad program
encouraging strong, flexible security controls in next generation OSs.
http://www.sctc.com/randt/HTML/dtos.html
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Sprite
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.
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/sprite/sprite.html
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Distributed Operating Systems
Short, annotated, alphabetically sorted list and links, part of larger system.
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/os/distributed.html
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MOSIX Clusters of Surplus Computers for Providing Common Network Services and Applications
Details active project to illustrate use of MOSIX to create clusters of surplus machines that can
be used to provide network services, application resources.
http://ralphie.perlmonk.org/mosix/
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