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MOSIX Clusters of Surplus Computers for Providing Common Network Services and Applications 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. (Distributed) http://ralphie.perlmonk.org/mosix/ XOS 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. (Distributed) http://free.prohosting.com/~xos/ Hive 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. (Distributed) http://www-flash.stanford.edu/OS/ DTOS 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 generat (Distributed) http://www.sctc.com/randt/HTML/dtos.html GLUnix 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 (Distributed) http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Glunix/glunix.html WebOS 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, a (Distributed) http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/issg/webos/ AgentOS 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 (Distributed) http://bolero.ics.uci.edu/agentos/ Distributed Operating Systems Distributed Operating Systems: Short, annotated, alphabetically sorted list and links, part of larger system. (Distributed) http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/os/distributed.html Tornado 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. (Distributed) http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/ParallelSys/tornado.html GUIDE 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, (Distributed) http://sardes.inrialpes.fr/guide/Welcome.html Sprite 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 (Distributed) ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/sprite/sprite.html AtomsNet 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, di (Distributed) http://atoms.sourceforge.net/ MIT LCS PDOS 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, I (Distributed) http://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/ Plan B Operating System Plan B Operating System: An operating system that lets applications be built simpler. The system selects and combines resources from the network semi-automatically. (Distributed) http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/who/nemo/Plan-B.html AgentOS: Agent-based Distributed Operating System for Mobile Networks 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. (Distributed) http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-2/agentos.html Hurricane 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. (Distributed) http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/ParallelSys/hurricane.html The Brave New OS of the Future 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] (Distributed) http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/13/brave.new.os.idg/ Institute for Distributed Systems: IVS 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. (Distributed) http://ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/index_english.shtml MOSIX 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] (Distributed) http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/labs/mosix/ Quarks 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] (Distributed) http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/quarks.html