"Standardized" and/or openly accepted infrastructures for creating and deploying distributed applications.
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- 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.
- 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.
- Legion Generic middleware for creating a worldwide virtual computer.
- Object Management Group Distributed object computing industry standards group founded in 1989. Defined standards include CORBA and IIOP.
- 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.)
- 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.
- Economy Grid Research on the development of economic resource management and scheduling system for global grid computing. Description and papers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Distributed Computing with HTTP, XML, SOAP, and WSDL Learn how various protocols fit into the big picture of the distributed computing arena.
- GridRepublic A non-profit organization created to provide supercomputing resources to public interest research, by use of volunteer distributed computing.
- IBM Distributed Computing Platform (DCP) A standardised approach for effective management of large numbers of desktops, devices, servers, applications and LAN’s from one centralised point.
- Apple Advanced Computation Group - Xgrid Clustering software intended primarily for scientific researchers. Mac OS X only.
- Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) Protocol that enables software components to communicate over a network in a reliable, secure, and efficient manner.
- IBM Distributed Computing Environment IBM's product offering based on the DCE open standard for distributed computing.
- JXTA Language- and platform-independent protocol for peer-to-peer networking, developed by Sun. Initial implementation in Java. [Open Source, BSD-like]